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From: s924723@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Son Huu Le)
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Subject: Re: stderr & $VER (fwd)
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From JVANRIPER@UNCA.EDU Wed Jul 14 22:48:18 1993
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 08:46:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph E. Van_Riper III" <JVANRIPER@UNCA.EDU>
Subject: Re: stderr & $VER
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You typed (regarding International Date Format for VER strings):
>Are you sure it's (d.m.yy) ?
I am pretty sure that IS the International Date Format. Although, looking at
the Includes and Autodocs, in the dos.library/DateToStr() function, it shows
for dat_Format a FORMAT_INT that is (yy-mmm-dd).. but somehow, I feel certain
that THAT couldn't be right for VER strings <grin>.
Doing it m.d.y is very American.. I know of no other country that formats their
date that way. And frankly, I think it's a stupid format (but, I suppose I'm
not a very good American <grin>). It's less logical... the d.m.y format shows
an increasing level of scope, while a y.m.d format would show a decreasing
level of scope, while m.d.y just plain LOOKS bad, is inelegant, and can get the
year/day confused when written in longer format (May 3rd, 1994... have to use a
',' to keep the confusion away.. not so with 3 May 94.. SO much more elegant).
Which has nothing whatsoever to do with E, and probably annoys the heck out of
the readership here.. sorry. I'll shut up now.
- Trey