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- From: tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Date request
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.144005.325@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 14:40:05 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.134109.3367@fasttech.com> <1992Dec16.171133.2856@lsl.co.uk> <1992Dec16.182110.28229@ico.isc.com>
- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
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- In article <1992Dec16.182110.28229@ico.isc.com> timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu) writes:
- >The convention MM/DD/YY probably came about because when we mention a
- >date the long way, we say: December 16, 1992.
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- I have always used the format 16 December 1992, which unfortunately is
- the military's format :) My favorite is the format which Microsoft
- Word 2.0 has "16 December, 1992"... those crazy MS guys... I guess
- they have never read Kate L. Terabean (sp?)
-
- Tom
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