#4: Type “Sent from iPhone” under your short responses. People don’t expect long responses when you’re on your phone. Don’t forget to mispell a few words.

This all looks graet +1!!
Sent from iPhone.

http://kevinrose.com/blogg/2010/8/17/email-sucks-5-time-saving-tips.html

I use 02JAN10 for the date. That way, I do not confuse my American colleauges ;-) (and this is in fact the standard scientific way of writing the date, and scientists are clever, so it must be right!)

Also, the American way is not the PROPER way – as long as you speak a derivitive of the Queen’s English, then the Queen’s way is the proper way.

My signature includes my name & title, institution, street address, tel/fax and email. I’ve been lectured before (by outsiders) for not including contact information. Ugh.

The head of our department standardized the signatures for the people who work under him (I’m not one of those staffers) – I think it’s html-based and is set up like a business card: on the left side is the person’s name, title, phone/fax/email and on the right side is the dept and street address. He’s kind of particular about stuff like that. Though I just noticed that a couple of staffers have been using their own (non-standard) signatures – I guess he hasn’t noticed their signatures yet because you can bet he’d badger them to conform.

http://google.alphalim.me/

It’s a forwarding link to a google search on my name, which turns up all that the searcher might want to know.

Google “international date standard” – you get what I posted. Now google some variation of “international date standard for humans”… First hit I get is the ISO standard again, and nothing to contradict it.

If you’d made it, I’d have accepted the argument that the need for a computerized date standard drove/accelerated the definition and sharing of an international date standard, but you don’t get to just arbitrarily claim “dd/mm/yyyy” as an international standard – it isn’t.

yyyy,mm,dd,HH,MM,SS,Cs should be yyyy,mm,dd,HH,MM,SS,ms (ms=milliseconds)

Also some languages (eg. Javascript) use 0 to 11 for months, so January=0

Not all computer languages use it thou.
Eg. PHP mktime() uses h,m,s, month,day,two digit year.
mktime(HH,MM,SS,MM,DD,YY*,dst)
YY* = 1970 to 2069
dst = true if summer time.
So the date is in the middle of the time as the command ends with the ‘Daylight Saving Time’ value.

yyyy-mm-dd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

That way you can use your preferred order – 19 June 2010 or June 19, 2010 – without creating any ambiguity for a recipient from another part of the organisation who prefers a different order.

This also works well if you need to put the message text into a translator.