> I have a strong suspicion -- Weronika? -- that Poland is now aping the > custom (along with many others). When I was growing up, the dates were > not only written in the "day, month, year" sequence (the logical > progression from the smallest to the largest unit), but the month was > written in Roman numerals, just to make everything perfectly clear. So, > today, would have been: 28.V.04. > > Sometime after I left, the month began to be written in Arabic > numerals. I expect, with the school week being reduced from 6 days to > 5, there was't enough time to teach kids Roman numerals <g> But, later > still, I began to get things dated *both* ways: 28.5.04 and 5.28.04. > Drives me up the wall :)
Tamara, How was it arranged when spoken? We say 'May 28, 2004', would you have said '28th of May, 2004? Lorri To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
