Re: Re: couple of general questions
От | Anthony E . Greene |
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Тема | Re: Re: couple of general questions |
Дата | |
Msg-id | 20010120011332.A19358@cp5340 обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Re: couple of general questions ("Gregory Wood" <gregw@com-stock.com>) |
Список | pgsql-general |
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:02:43 Gregory Wood wrote: >> Does anyone else get annoyed when going on to an american site to >> register or buy something and find that the state field is only >> 2 characters long? > [snip] > >Does anyone else get annoyed when people jump all over someone because they >didn't spend 20 minutes proofreading something for political correctness >when they were trying to help someone else? No, but I get annoyed when I can't enter my address in a form because the form's creator did not consider all possible valid responses -- even for American addresses. For instance there are 50 U.S. states, but there's also the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, possessions, and military overseas addresses (APO/FPO) that have a "state" code. You'd be surprised how many sites fail to allow for all these variations of "American" addresses. Some things really are a fixed length of 2 (the number of digits needed to specify hour of day, day of month, or month of year). As for the state code, it wasn't political correctness, it was a valid point. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <agreene@pobox.com> <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> PGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D Chat: AOL/Yahoo: TonyG05 ICQ: 91183266 Linux. The choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/>
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