🚀 go-pugleaf

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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