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- From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
- Subject: Re: REPOST: Scott Yanoff's Internet services list recent to 9/11/92
- Message-ID: <qnrq6np@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 18:33:21 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- References: <1egld7INNt75@newz.ens.tek.com> <By4rGz.9vn@ddsw1.mcs.com> <1992Nov23.081723.11897@rdg.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Nov23.081723.11897@rdg.dec.com> cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn) writes:
- >
- >
- >it is: dd-mmm-yyyy, where the month is written in letters.
- >
- > i.e. 23-Nov-1992
- >
- >Is that acceptable to everyone?
-
- Ya it would be acceptable to computer illiterate secretaries, but it is hard to
- write programs to sort dates using that format.
-
- I'm all for dd/mm/yy since it is the only logical format and
- it is easier to handle programming-wise. Now,
- I am american and I do have to use the mm/dd/yy format (otherwise
- none else would know what the heck I mean). Probably
- the best format would be to specify the format before
- typing it. Like this
-
- US mm/dd/yy
- EU dd/mm/yy
- UA dd/mm/yyyy
-
- US - United States (and related users of the format)
- EU - Europe (and related users of the format)
- UA - Unambiguous Format.(sp?)
-