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- From: cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
- Subject: Re: dd mm yy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.122605.21008@rdg.dec.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 11:20:08 GMT
- References: <ByJJ12.EB7@ddsw1.mcs.com> <723548771snz@muir.demon.co.uk> <Bz1zt4.JFs@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Co. Ltd., Reading, England
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- In article <Bz1zt4.JFs@ddsw1.mcs.com>, dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT) writes...
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- >Before this thread began, I had never heard of the use of slashes or periods
- >with dd mm yy syntax; I'd seen dd mm yy only with spaces or periods. Slashes
- >and hyphens always meant mm dd yy in my experience.
- >
- The US dept of immigration uses slashes on the form which foreigners
- fill in when visiting the US. The order on the form is dd mm yy.
- Maybe they just got fed up with everybody filling in dd mm yy instead
- of the US mm dd yy?
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