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Article #894Re: 9/11
From: Philip G
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 13:20
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 13:20
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Good question. The Chinese and Japanese convention is to begin with the general, move to the specific, then to the detail. That's why surnames are placed first. Dates appear as year-month-day. That doesn't help answer your question though. Don H wrote: > 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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