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echo: fidonews
to: EARL CROASMUN
from: JANIS KRACHT
date: 2016-04-16 13:50:00
subject: Australia vs. Oceania

Hi Earl,

>>People in the America use a number of diffent styles to display dates.  Not o
>> of them are more correct than another.  They are just different.

>>> Even on the news here they refer to that one day as "September 11" when the
>>> other 364 days of the year are 12th September etc.

>> Who cares?  Type it as you will.  Makes no difference.

>"Year-monthnumber-date" is what I always use when putting dates into file name
> or folder names. That way alphabetical order automatically puts them into
> chronological order. In official/business writing I usually do
>"date-month-year," but I never thought about it much. Maybe I am just too lazy
> to insert that annoying comma between date and year. I guess I missed that
> "brainwashing" that David worries so much about.

As have I it seems.  Poor guy must make himself ill worrying about such
nonsense.

Take care,
Janis

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