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Re: Silicon Sea date notation
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Nov 13, 13:31 -0800
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Nov 13, 13:31 -0800
Dan Hogan wrote: > > Silicon Sea date notation is MMDDYYYY because the program I use to calculate You meant to say DD/MM/YYYY, right? Looking at the previous two legs, it appears that is the normal convention aboard Silicon Sea. As for leaving it unchanged, no problem, I can cope. But this certainly points out how confusing numeric dates can be! The U.S. military (or the Air Force, at least) for umpteen years used dates like 13 Nov 02. Around the Y2K scare it became common to use all four digits in the dates. But in recent years the ISO style has made inroads. Before I retired in 2000, it was mandatory in personnel performance appraisal forms and aircraft maintenance documents.
