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From: swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Sorting by date (was: Tracking Al Einstein)
Message-ID: <11630005@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 10:47:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  6 10:47:42 1987
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Re: Order of date components

The claim is made that dates are written (for computer display and input)
in an awkward sorting order (i.e. mm/dd/yy) because most people write them
that way and would not want to change.

Let's not be so parochial as to believe that "most" people are only American
people.  There are lots of other people out there who have different ideas
about how a date should be displayed.

In fact, there are so many opinions on the matter, isn't there an ISO standard
stating that the "correct" display format is 19XX MM DD?

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