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- From: jackc@vermont.mti.sgi.com (Jack Choquette)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Date request
- Message-ID: <1gob7eINN37a@spim.mti.sgi.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 22:39:42 GMT
- References: <WAYNE.92Dec11164422@backbone.uucp> <9212130000.AA05447@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> <1992Dec14.134109.3367@fasttech.com> <1992Dec16.171133.2856@lsl.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Dec16.171133.2856@lsl.co.uk>, snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
- |> 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.
- |> --
-
- One reason that has been suggested to me is that it's based on the size of
- number and organized smallest to largest. The largest month is 12, largest
- day is 31, and largest year is >1992.
-
- But I think the real reason is because Month/Day/Year is the way a date is
- written out in short form. For example:
- "The event occured on the 25th of May in 1968"
- which is shorten to
- "The event occured on May 25, 1968"
- which is shorten to
- "The event occured on 5/25/68"
-
-
- /jack
-