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Article #892Re: 9/11
From: Old and Cranky
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 10:14
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 10:14
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mm/dd/yyyy is totally illogical. It should be either yyyy/mm/dd or dd/mm/yyyy. The USA has it wrong. But try telling them that!!! They have a monopoly over commonsense. "Don H" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote in message news:Uyte9.27070$g9.76749@newsfeeds.bigpond.com... > I've often wondered at American logic re the presentation of dates as - > month-day-year. I can understand : day-month-year, and its reverse of : > year-month-day, because these show a progression from smallest unit to > largest, or vice versa. But month-day-year? Or is it just that the US has > to be different from everyone else? > "On the eleventh day of the ninth month, in the year of Our Lord two > thousand and one...." > =============================================== > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd648,582dcc2346ea71b2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd648,public X-Google-Thread: 10cc56,582dcc2346ea71b2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc56,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-08 03:15:00 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: "Old and Cranky" <Oldandcranky@noemail.com> Newsgroups: sci.logic,aus.science References: <Uyte9.27070$g9.76749@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> Subject: Re: 9/11 Lines: 22 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <DqFe9.7267$_l1.18286@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 10:14:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.45.154.63 X-Complaints-To: news@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1031480099 203.45.154.63 (Sun, 08 Sep 2002 20:14:59 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 20:14:59 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au)