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From: miller@uwovax.uwo.ca (Greg Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.std.internat
Subject: All numeric representation of dates
Message-ID: <622@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 26 Aug 88 18:54:39 GMT
References: <3900@enea.se> <1785@water.waterloo.edu> <183@dcs.UUCP>
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Organisation: University of Western Ontario, LONDON, ON

In article <183@dcs.UUCP>, wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:

 > Actually, (YY)YY-MM-DD, or rather (YY)YY MM DD, is the way school children in
 > Germany and Austria are taught nowadays to write the date. I believe it is at
 > least a DIN and OeNORM standard (German & Austrian), and may even be an
 > ISO/SI standard. Seems that Europe is ahead of North America in that respect.

       ^^ SI refers to the International System d'unite;
          ISO is the International Standards Organization,
          which has produced standards on the use of SI,
          viz ISO 31, ISO 1000.
            

The international standard for the representation of dates in all numeric form
is ISO 2014.  As far as I am aware, the University of Western Ontario has
officially adopted this format for the all numeric representation of dates.  

                        Greg Miller

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