Re: 9/11

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From: Joe Blow
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 22:33

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WELL... I was born on (as us Americans would say) December 29, 1981
(12-29-81)
Month day year

seems fairly simple to me.

"Don H" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> I've often wondered at American logic re the presentation of dates as -
> month-day-year.  I can understand : day-month-year, and its reverse of :
> year-month-day, because these show a progression from smallest unit to
> largest, or vice versa.  But month-day-year?  Or is it just that the US
has
> to be different from everyone else?
> "On the eleventh day of the ninth month, in the year of Our Lord two
> thousand and one...."
> ===============================================
>
>


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