A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
General
- Following on from last week's note about the origin of the CEMCL bricks found above Taikoo, Chinarail adds more information about their manufacturer: The Chinese Engineering & Mining Company ( CEMCo.)
- Readers' memories:
- Upgrade update: I’ve been working on how we’ll store photos on the new website. An upgrade is a chance to step back and see what can be improved, so there a couple of changes in store. Please see the video below for details (or if it doesn’t show up in your email, please click this link to see it on Youtube).
Places
Japanese wartime tunnels
Thanks to Maxwell C for adding their locations, and the videos he's taken inside them.
- Japanese Tunnel "Marker Stone Cave" [????- ], Beacon Hill
- Japanese Tunnel "T" [????- ], between Lion Rock and Sha Tin Pass
- Japanese Tunnel Network [????- ], near Railway Pass
- Japanese Tunnel Network "H" [????- ], Unicorn Ridge
- Wartime tunnel above SKW East (upper) service reservoir [????- ]
Hong Kong island
- Old Section of Bowen Road [????- ], fenced off but still visible
- C. Block / Cassels Block, Victoria Barracks / Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre [????- ]
- Scandal Point
- Stewart Road ferry pier [1956-c.1970]
Kowloon
People
- Stanley Camp internees:
- Raoul BIGAZZI [c.1888-1962], sculptor
- Benjamin Davies EVANS [1887-1976], Director of the Royal Observatory
- Margaret Mary WHITE (née WOOLLEY) [1907-1983]
- Raoul BIGAZZI [c.1888-1962], sculptor
- Other
- Leopold GADDI [c.1910-????], general manager of The Peninsula Hotel
- Siegfried KOMOR [1863-1935], owner of Komor & Komor, a well-known curio shop
- Bernhard Pedersen ULLAND [1877-1935], Norwegian sailor
- Leopold GADDI [c.1910-????], general manager of The Peninsula Hotel
Photos
by qatric
Click to see all recently added photos.
Format of dates
Hi David,
did I get it right from your video that the format of dates has changed from yyyy-mm-dd to mm-dd-yyyy?
re: Format of dates
Hi Klaus,
Well spotted! The current way to enter a date on the new site (ie what you see in the video) uses mm-dd-yyyy. However, as we display dates in format 1 Jan 1980, I have on my to-do list to look for a way to enter the date in format dd-mm-yyyy instead, which I hope will be more consistent for the user.
Do you have any thoughts on this?
Regards, David
RE: format
Hi David,
it's only an observation of changes (I'm working for international standardization (ISO), that's why things like that attract my attention). As you said, the format yyyy-mm-dd is used for chronological order in computers, and I really got used to it. If you want to change that, then I prefer dd-mm-yyyy .
Regards, Klaus
RE: format
Thanks for the feedback. I found another date-entry tool that looks like it will allow the dd-mm-yyyy format, so that should solve the problem.