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- From: daniel@clsi.COM (Daniel S. Barclay)
- Subject: Re: Date request
- In-Reply-To: snail@lsl.co.uk's message of 16 Dec 92 16:11:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <DANIEL.92Dec18155809@algol.clsi.COM>
- Sender: usenet@clsi.COM
- Organization: CAD Language Systems Inc.
- References: <WAYNE.92Dec11164422@backbone.uucp> <9212130000.AA05447@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
- <1992Dec14.134109.3367@fasttech.com> <1992Dec16.171133.2856@lsl.co.uk>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 15:58:09
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- snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
- > 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.
-
- I thought I heard that there is an ISO date format of YY/MM/DD. I like that
- and YYMMDD; they sort (lexicographically and mathematically) into
- chronological order. (Which is consistent with times as HHMMSS.)
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- Daniel S. Barclay --who's still searching for a good
- CAD Language Systems, Inc. signature, not liking any of his recent
- Suite 101, 5457 Twin Knolls Rd. feeble attempts to improve on the whiny:
- Columbia, MD 21045 USA Why can't _I_ think of a good signature?
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