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To: mr.mark who wrote (38051)1/8/2000 4:48:00 PM
From: Mang Cheng  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 45548
 
mark, <despite the futuristic date stamp (08/01/2000),>

Don't you think that's the British way of saying Jan 8, 2000 ?

International standard should be like 2000/01/08
because in this way the sorting will work normally.

Mang



To: mr.mark who wrote (38051)1/8/2000 4:51:00 PM
From: Mort  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 45548
 
Mr. Mark, In most other parts of the world the date is written with the day first and the month second. That article was written today in the UK.

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To: mr.mark who wrote (38051)1/8/2000 6:42:00 PM
From: geekland  Respond to of 45548
 
No doubt that so-called "future" date of the
Apple-PALM article reflects a DD/MM/YY format.
Don't know why though. (?) Of course, most of
the world's languages notate dates in such a way.
But HEY, da good ole USA doesn't know beans about
the METRIC system either! (Witness the crashed
Mars probe due to a lack of such awareness. DUH!)