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Re: opinion on international date standards (kinda long)
Subject:Re: opinion on international date standards (kinda long) From:Peter Brown <pbrown -at- MKS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:41:35 -0400
Buck Buchanan wrote, quoting someone else:
> I have never understood why Americans want to
> > have the medium unit (month) first before the small unit (day). In
> normal
> > sense, one goes from small to large or large to small, ie, day,
> month,
> > year. - It's logical, isn't it?
>
> It all goes back to anti-colonialism.
Since the longform style of dates is often Month DD, YYYY, as in July
24, 1997, then it seems natural to me to order them MM/DD/YY when I use
a short form.
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