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- From: snail@lsl.co.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Date request
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.171133.2856@lsl.co.uk>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 16:11:33 GMT
- References: <WAYNE.92Dec11164422@backbone.uucp> <9212130000.AA05447@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> <1992Dec14.134109.3367@fasttech.com>
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- In article <1992Dec14.134109.3367@fasttech.com>, zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:
- > A 10/21/92 semi-official net posting on NextStep claims it runs on SXs:
-
- Hi folks, this is not a flame, just a request.
-
- The date above refers to 21 November 1992. That may seem obvious to some of
- you. Lets switch the 21 to an 8. In America the date is now 8 November 1992. In
- the UK the date in now 10 August 1992. Some places have dates as Year/Month/Day
- too. It would be more clear if everyone wrote the month name as a name (until
- 2001 anyway). ie: 21/NOV/92.
-
- The above aside, I'm always puzzled as to how the American date convention
- started: Mont/Day/Year is neither LSB or MSB, where as Day/Month/Year and
- Year/Month/Day have obvious reasoning behind them.
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- snail@lsl.co.uk
-
- muso/unix joke: "which debugger do you use?"
- "I use dbx..."
- "Oh really, we use Dolby C..."
- Motorola inside.
-