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tOM
On Sunday, December 30, 2001 at 7:05, Chris Barker
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "[OM] Re: Date format and similar st" saying:
> Brian, don't you realise? It's in the Constitution (or an Amendment
> thereof) that they have to be free in their expression (I think) ...
>
> :>)
>
> Chris
>
> At 09:25 +1300 30/12/01, Brian Swale wrote:
> >Hi Fellow Zuiks,
> >
> >At the risk of starting a flame war (which I don't want), can I just point
> >out (then run for cover) that most non-US residents who have had any
> >involvement with international things have noticed that people in the USA
> >are the only ones in the world who reverse the sequence of date components
> >in the middle.
> >
> >Most (all?) others go from small part to large part, or vice-versa. i.e.
> >
> >year/month/day/hour/minute/second.
> >
>
> snip
>
> >So long as we respect and understand our differences, there shouldn't be a
> >problem. Who is to say which is the "right" way.
> >
> >Brian
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