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echo: maximus
to: HARRY OLDENHUIS
from: PETER LANE-COLLETT
date: 1997-11-08 05:17:00
subject: Year 2000

DA>>         There is an international standard for writing dates which is:
DA>>         year-month-day.  If everybody was using it, we would all be
DA>>         better off.
HO>> That is the American way, you will find most countries use
HO>> 21-10-1997   America has to be differant.
I believe the US way is MM-DD-YYYY. I think Japan uses YYYY-MM-DD. We do 
things the Euro DD-MM-YYYY way in Australia but is a bugger to sort anything 
that way without converting.
peter.lc@mailbox.uq.edu.au
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