ME> Each "yy" to become "yyyy" thus the already flexible MAX remains so but
 ME> with four digit year compliance the way other apps are being recoded or
That is, in itself, not too hard.  Unfortunately, there are other places in 
the system which use specific date formats that are not user-definable.  (If 
I recall correctly, one such place is in the message-reading screen under 
some circumstances.  The Statistics menu is another.)
Even with that change, the lengths of all of those strings change, which 
means another more-detailed round of testing.  :-(
 ME> But you have already built that flexibility into MAX as noted above from
 ME> the MAX docs, and even though you point out 94.3% of the world is not 
he
 ME> USA, you did make it the default so most of this line of argument seems
 ME> like "puffery". (IMHO)
My point about the order of the month/day fields was that it was difficult to 
make the date format completely unambiguous without wasting a lot of space, 
not that 94.3% of the world was any better or any worse than the other part. 
:-)
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