Denied boarding , ESTA problem , Air France
Aug 15, 2014, 1:27 am
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However, if you do expect it to be logical, day/month/year doesn't work because every other expression of numbered units you will ever use, and indeed most organizational hierarchies* go largest-to-smallest, including as you note, hours:minutes.seconds.
So if you decide you want an exception for dates to go smallest-to-largest, that doesn't seem any more arbitrary than having medium/small/large.
* If you can think of an exception let me know! Perhaps one counterexample is internet domain names which go http://subdomains.domain.type(.country), but Sir Tim now regrets he organized it that way.
Aug 15, 2014, 3:35 am
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* If you can think of an exception let me know! Perhaps one counterexample is internet domain names which go http://subdomains.domain.type(.country), but Sir Tim now regrets he organized it that way.
Aug 15, 2014, 8:58 am
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Sometimes in Russia they use roman numerals for the month which then makes it unambiguous.
Once USA CBP gave me trouble when returning to the USA because I wrote the date in the European order on my form, IIRC something like 20 July 2001. I was grilled about whether I really had been born in the USA as my passport said. I forget now whether it was immigration or the customs guy, but either way it could just have been an attempt to check whether I was nervous about something. [I apparently passed as I wasn't sent to secondary.]
Aug 15, 2014, 9:00 am
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I was convinced that this was true, but I asked my Chinese speaking bi-lingual seat mate and he told me to just say on the form that my visa for China had been issued in the USA. Fortunately the Chinese immigration officials were OK with this and I wasn't sent back to do another form.
Aug 24, 2014, 9:49 pm
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Looks like the return flight issue won't be a problem anymore in the not-too-distant future. Among the proposed updates for the next version of EC261 is a ban on the practice of cancelling returns for not taking the outbound flight.
Won't do the OP any good, but it may be useful for future FT'ers getting lost in the red tape of the ESTA bureaucracy.
Won't do the OP any good, but it may be useful for future FT'ers getting lost in the red tape of the ESTA bureaucracy.
Aug 25, 2014, 1:09 am
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http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-119_en.htm
Silence since that round of comments.... the buggers must be too busy deciding who gets what job...
And changes are badly needed when you look at this report: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-558_en.htm
Silence since that round of comments.... the buggers must be too busy deciding who gets what job...
And changes are badly needed when you look at this report: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-558_en.htm
Aug 25, 2014, 1:19 am
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I'm gonna put my "IT geek" cap on and say that year/month/day is the most logical as when you have many dates, they can be automatically sorted in plain text :-)
Aug 25, 2014, 3:06 am
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http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-119_en.htm
Silence since that round of comments.... the buggers must be too busy deciding who gets what job...
And changes are badly needed when you look at this report: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-558_en.htm
Silence since that round of comments.... the buggers must be too busy deciding who gets what job...
And changes are badly needed when you look at this report: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-558_en.htm
As we know, the Commission has no decision making power, this is solely the prerogative of the Council and the European Parliament, with the European Parliament taking the lead in issues falling into codecision areas as is the case here. I very much hope that the Parliament will reject most of the Commission proposals which are very regressive. I would strongly advise people not to get too excited (either way) at this stage.