Donat Allaire wrote in a message to Patrick McCullough:
DA>      ** From Patrick McCullough to Scott Dudley **
.PM>  It confuses me /now/ when I stumble across a date like 14/01/95  or
.PM> 2/10/97.  Which is the month and date?  Is it October 2 or  February
.PM> 10th?
DA>         Hello Patrick!
DA> There is an international standard for writing dates which
DA> is: year-month-day.  If everybody was using it, we would all
DA> be better off.
 Both of my systems run in that manner, but mainly because I picked
 up the Japanese style of writing dates long before anyone had ever
 heard of Y2k... for no other reason than 97.10.19 seemed the most
 logical to me.
 Happily, Maximus lets me use that format, as does my OS, so all is
 well for me. 
 Patrick
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