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|    August Abolins to Martin Foster    |
|    on the matter of date formats    |
|    30 Sep 20 08:19:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet e8efe956       REPLY: 2:310/31.3@fidonet e8e94ebe       PID: OpenXP/5.0.46 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0400       Hello Martin!              ** On Wednesday 30.09.20 - 09:18, Martin Foster wrote to Chuck Pierson:               MF> Although I've lived in the UK all my life and was brought        MF> up to use the British date format(dd/mm/yyyy), I now much        MF> prefer to use the European date format(dd.mm.yyyy).                     The "." vs "/" makes no difference to me. Albiet, I am partial        to the "." when illustrating a phone number (See the very top        of my biz website: https://ashlies.ca              When I worked in industry where the client was primarily the        military, the spec documents and other correspondences used        what I call the odemeter arrangement for the date:               yyyy mm dd, or yyyymmdd              That made the most sense for me. It was super easy to sort        files and instantly see the proper order of things.              --        ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.46        * Origin: ----------Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate.---------- (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 120/340 123/131 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424       SEEN-BY: 229/426 664 1016 240/5832 249/206 317 400 292/854 317/3 322/757       SEEN-BY: 342/200       PATH: 221/1 280/464 229/101 426           |
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