<div dir="ltr"><div>On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 6:01 AM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ldeffenb@homeside.to" target="_blank">ldeffenb@homeside.to</a>></span> <wbr>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div class="m_457933502743665863gmail-m_6451549900583780245moz-cite-prefix">To reduce the length of daily events, how about:<br><br>NETMoTuWeThFr0900 becoming NETMo-Fr0900 or NETMo..Fr0900</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I love it. I had tried to come up with summarizing aliases for all days and every workday, but didn't like any of them and it made the spec less clear from an internationalization standpoint particularly. Arbitrary ranges with a hyphen is more attractive.</div><div><br></div><div>Amendment: Ranges of days may be specified by a hyphen; i.e. Mo-Fi, Sa-Mo, etc.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 9:23 AM, KF4LVZ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aprssigZbr6@acarver.net" target="_blank">aprssigZbr6@acarver.<wbr>net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Trim at least two extra characters and leave it just the first letter of<br>the day. Thursday would actually become an R (this is actually fairly<br>common) and Saturday or Sunday would need to change (probably Saturday<br>could become A).</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I've seen lots of people having difficulty with single character abbreviations for weekdays. Most people can figure out R, but conventions for Saturday/Sunday are all over the map. The fact that there's more than one means that people need outside knowledge to understand the abbreviations, which I'm not a fan of.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I expect most event time announcements to be for one day per week/month events, so we're talking about saving a single character in most applications for what I think is a big readability hit. (I didn't follow where you got "at least two characters" from)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_457933502743665863gmail_signature">--<br>Kenneth Finnegan, W6KWF<br><a href="http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.<wbr>com/</a></div></div>
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