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Article #38Re: 2013 21 Aug
From: Steve Hayes
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:29
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:29
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 12:47:27 -0000, "Guy Barry" <guy.barry@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >[I am astonished to see "ed.followup" in the newsgroups line. This is a >local Edinburgh group and was redundant when I was there twenty years ago!] > >"Cheryl" wrote in message news:akin5gFnguhU2@mid.individual.net... > >>I like the form 2013-01-01 because in Canada I sometimes see the US version >>and sometimes the UK one and get confused. > >Not on that particular date though! I believe that part of the reason it >was adopted as the ISO standard was to avoid US/UK date confusion, but it >doesn't seem to have caught on. It's also much easier for sort in computers, and it's the only form I use to write numeric dates. It's been standard here for 40 years. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
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From: Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>
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Subject: Re: 2013 21 Aug
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:29:17 +0200
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