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- From: phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Liddicott)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
- Subject: Re: dd mm yy
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 15:37:49 -0000
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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- Message-ID: <1hsfodINNmat@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
- References: <723548771snz@muir.demon.co.uk> <Bz1zt4.JFs@ddsw1.mcs.com> <1992Dec30.122605.21008@rdg.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.122605.21008@rdg.dec.com> cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn) writes:
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- >In article <Bz1zt4.JFs@ddsw1.mcs.com>, dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT) writes...
- >
- >>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?
- >
- when I enetred the US the immigration form date order was dd/mm/yy BUT
- the immigration official filled it out mm/dd/yy, I pointed out the mistake
- but she said it didn't matter!
-
- hm....
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