(meteorobs) 2005 Perseids still scheduled for August
Malcolm J. Currie
mjc at star.rl.ac.uk
Wed Jun 15 09:40:25 EDT 2005
> The *only* unambiguous date form for the Gregorian calendar is ISO long
> form, where the Perseids will occur on 2005-08-12. Of course ever finer
> information can be tagged on in diminishing order HH:MM:SS.s.(using, *of
> course*, the 24-hour clock, preferably UT :)
A man after my own heart! I've been using the IAU form, e.g. 2005
August 12, for an orbit of the Leonid stream. Even in the astronomical
world I find opposition to this logical order in line with normal
numerical order.
Malcolm Currie
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