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In article <1992Dec19.174528.638@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>, dneedham@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Douglas Wade Needham) writes:
|> I started to mail it, but felt strong enough to go through the hassle of
|> turning my reply into a followup...
|> 
|> It might be "Here we go again", but it is a valid point.  While I am,
|> as you say, a "Yank" like the gentleman at microsoft, I too have found
|> it very frustrating...to put it very simply...IT MAKES NO () SENSE!!!
|> Just like the measurements system that the USA uses.  And just as the
|> rest of the world uses MKS or some derivative of it, the majority of
|> the world to my knowledge uses YY/MM/DD, DD/MM/YY or something of that
|> nature, and NOT the XX/DD/XX form that we use predomanately here.
|> 
|> Maybe the US should take the hint, jump on the band-wagon and ride along
|> with the rest of the world.  Otherwise, the USA will end up like the brother
|> who decided to walk to the town in the next county rather than hitch up the
|> wagon and ride there.  If the first brother does not get on the wagon, who
|> gets to town first (reguardless of whether or not the first brother can
|> beat-up the second)???
|> 
|> The UK went to metric, abandoning the measurement system US civilians use.
|> This also should say something.
|> 
|> NUFF SAID!!! Besides, this is not the best news group for it.

For those Americans who are unaware, we are now a metric nation. The congress
decreed that starting in 1988 we should start using metric and that after a
certain date (I believe Dec. 31, 1992) All government transactions must be
conducted using metric. The last SBIR pre-solicitation announcement (and
probably a whole bunch of other recent government documents) mentioned this
and said that instructions on how to deal with it will be forthcomming.

Jason W. Solinsky