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- From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi)
- Subject: Re: REPOST: Scott Yanoff's Internet services list recent to 9/11/92
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- References: <1992Nov14.014214.10471@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov15.045900.19430@cas.org> <1egld7INNt75@newz.ens.tek.com> <By4rGz.9vn@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:56:56 GMT
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- In <By4rGz.9vn@ddsw1.mcs.com> dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT) writes:
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- >Today is 11/22/92, or 11-22-92, or 22.11.92, or 22.XI.92, or 22 XI 92, but
- >it is nowise 22/11/92.
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- Actually in many parts of the world 11/22/92 *is* correctly written as
- 22/11/92 (or is it the other way around?).
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- The only two unambiguous formats are of the form
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- 1992/11/22 yyyy/mm/dd
- 22-Nov-1992 dd-month-yyyy (slashes will work too)
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- Relying on slashes versus dashes for disambiguation is dangerous.
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- Greek digits can help but:
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- 22.ii.92 can be misread as 22.11.92
- 22.vi.92 can offend emacs users
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- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
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