jaclaz Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 (edited) I'm not assuming that you're in Italy, your flag is Italian and IP address is Italian, (telecomitalia.it). Since I was replying directly to you, there was no reason not to structure my response directly to you.Well, IMHO there are several alternative possibilities to my being in Italy.I could use an Italian proxy allright, and besides, I could well be:a liar (misrepresenting my nationality/citizenship - which is not BTW "usual place of residence"- this is what I understand for "country" ) a tourist in Italy casually posting from a cybercafe in FlorenceBut even once established that I am in Italy, would it be possible that I have files created with a "-" sign?I could well be any of:An international consultant, often traveling both sides of the Atlantic and thus most probably having on my notebook any number of files with dates with the + or - sign.A digital forensics examiner, often having to deal with disk images made overseas.A completely crazy loon, that loves to have his PC set to US Central time during the week (because my first love was a girl from Nebraska ) and Mountain time on weekends (to get up earlier ) jaclaz Edited June 5, 2012 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yzöwl Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 All of that and you still use dd/mm/yyyy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 All of that and you still use dd/mm/yyyy. Yep , you got me .AFAIK that (making people write dates/numbers/basic math and their symbols) was used as a quick way to find non-native enemy spies, it seems like most people - even very well trained/bilingual ones - when it comes to this tend to revert to their native conventions (i.e. the ones they learned as kids/at school), but exception made for the US, I believe that the rest of the world, uses dates in the "normal" way:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country so I could well be from (say) Brazil.... AND, at least according to this, the trend is towards an expansion of this use even in the US:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_United_StatesResistance is futile, you will be assimilated Now, for NO apparent reason, a nice file renamer:http://www.1-4a.com/rename/with an interesting option/feature :http://www.1-4a.com/rename/stardate.htmjaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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