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- From: cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn)
- Subject: Re: REPOST: Scott Yanoff's Internet services list recent to 9/11/92
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.081723.11897@rdg.dec.com>
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Co. Ltd., Reading, England
- References: <1992Nov14.014214.10471@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov15.045900.19430@cas.org> <1egld7INNt75@newz.ens.tek.com> <By4rGz.9vn@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:12:58 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <By4rGz.9vn@ddsw1.mcs.com>, dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT) writes...
- >In <1egld7INNt75@newz.ens.tek.com> waynec@tektronix.tek.com (Wayne Clark)
- >cites an article by Larry Virden that I did not read in the original,
- >addressed to I know not whom:
- >
- >| In article <1992Nov15.045900.19430@cas.org>, lwv26@cas.org (Larry W.
- >| Virden) writes:
- >| |> You are right - I am wrong. In a fit of blindness, I mis read your date
- >| |> as a mm/dd/yy instead of a dd/mm/yy date. I apologize.
- >
- >I wish to heck that people would follow conventions in expressing dates:
- >dd.mm.yy[yy] with periods or dd mm yy[yy] with spaces but mm/dd/yy[yy] with
- >slashes or mm-dd-yy[yy] with hyphens. Anyone using slashes to write dd/mm/yy
- >during the first twelve days of a month is asking for problems.
- >
- >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.
- >
-
- Only in North America, and this is a worldwide forum.
- In the UK, it's 23-11-92 today, as it is in most of Europe.
-
- Let me propose a solution. I work for an American company, and their
- computers have a date format which is clear, unambiguous and used on
- both sides of the Atlantic with problems.
-
- it is: dd-mmm-yyyy, where the month is written in letters.
-
- i.e. 23-Nov-1992
-
- Is that acceptable to everyone?
-
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