Re: OT: date references as [yymmdd]

2002-03-13 Thread Sven Guckes
* Michael Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020313 07:44]: * Rob Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12 Mar 2002 15:44]: I'm against 6 digit dates as a communication standard because they're easy to misinterpret. Same; hence my choice of the above attribution :-) It's bad enough trying to sort out 12/03/02,

Re: OT: date references as [yymmdd]

2002-03-13 Thread Simon White
13-Mar-02 at 09:35, Sven Guckes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : I started using [yymmdd] as a date indicator on my webpages before Markus Kuhn wrote ISO-8601 (in 1995) - so sue me! ;-) Well, that's no excuse for not having become year 2000 compliant. The big problem with dates is the American

Re: OT: date references as [yymmdd]

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:04:19AM +, Simon White wrote: 13-Mar-02 at 09:35, Sven Guckes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : I started using [yymmdd] as a date indicator on my webpages before Markus Kuhn wrote ISO-8601 (in 1995) - so sue me! ;-) Well, that's no excuse for not having become