From derek@knosof.uucp Fri Oct 14 13:12:07 1994 Received: from eros.Britain.EU.net by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA06940 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Fri, 14 Oct 1994 13:12:07 +0100 Received: from pyra.co.uk by eros.britain.eu.net with UUCP id ; Fri, 14 Oct 1994 13:11:10 +0100 Received: by knosof.UUCP (anilla/UUCP-Project/rel-1.0/11-05-86) id AA04037; Fri, 14 Oct 94 13:01:29 BST Date: Fri, 14 Oct 94 13:01:29 BST From: derek@knosof.uucp (Derek M Jones) Message-Id: <9410141201.AA04037@knosof.UUCP> To: c++panel@pyra.co.uk, ist5@pyra.co.uk, sqlpanel@pyra.co.uk, wg14@pyra.co.uk, wg15@pyra.co.uk Subject: Did you know ... X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 All, I have just found out that today is World Standards Day. Does this mean that all over the Earth it is Standards day, or is it simply World Standards Day in the UK? If it is the former it ought to be called Earth Standards Day (just in case the Martians have theirs on a different day). I seem to remember a similar event last year. Is October 14 the standards day for this event now? This is not a particularly standard day. September 21 or March 21 have the advantage of having the same number of hours of daylight as night. March would probably be better since fewer countries would haved switched to daylight saving time (we in the UK will be on GMT, but on BST in September). Also the supplement in the Financial Times spelt ISO as Iso. Does this mean that ISO has now been recognised as a full blown noun, like Laser? Or is this a bug in somebodies spelling checker dictionary? What is one supposed to do on Standards Day? Do BSI or NIST offer certification services to ensure compliance? derek