RE: [xml-dev] Re: maps

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

The challenge of idioms is to confront the 
relationship of locale to the habits of interpretation, 
aka, semiosis.

No sign fits all. :-)

len

From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]

This was actually a booby trap: the style 12.15 (for a time) is perfectly
common in the U.K., maybe even standard.  But it means 15 minutes after 12,
not 12.15 hours after midnight.