Wayne, how are you able to use the word "Smart" and "Microsoft" in the same
sentence?? :-)
Albert (BSD Bigot)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 3:48 AM
Subject: RE: [OM] Airport security
> Mickey wrote:
>
> >
> > Wayne-
> > In the US, we normally express dates in the form Month/Day/Year
> > (09/11/2001). The event is commonly referred to as 'nine-eleven' here.
An
> > exception to the date convention is in the US military,
> > government and some
> > local governments will express the date as Day/Month/Year, where the
Month
> > is expressed as the word (11 November 2001). Some computers store the
date
> > as 8 digits in the form yyyymmdd (20010911) and display it in the form
of
> > your choice.
> >
> > OM content. I briefly had a digital data back on my OM-4. It allowed the
> > user to select the preferred date display format.
> >
>
> Thanks for the explanation, I'm certainly familiar with the strange way
you
> septics represent dates ! I seem to recall some "smart" Microsoft product
> that attempted to read your mind when you entered dates, so if you entered
> 9/11/2001 it accepted that as 11th Sept., but if you entered 28/12/2001 it
> interpreted that as 28th Dec. instead of rejecting it.
>
> ...Wayne
>
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