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Re: opinion on international date standards (kinda long)
Subject:Re: opinion on international date standards (kinda long) From:"Nagai, Paul" <pnagai -at- VISA -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:26:19 -0700
John,
>1) Spell out the format, so that "06/07/97" would appear as June 7, 1997
>
>2) Use a UNIX based format, so that "06/07/97" would appear as 07 Jun 1997
>
WHATEVER your solution, please be sure it will not cause problem when
you say
01 Jan 2000
January 1, 2000
or
20000101
01/01/00 may be a bad date no matter where you are.
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Paul Nagai
Visa International
pnagai -at- visa -dot- com
415-432-1101
415-432-3678 fax
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