Jacob Schanker wrote:

> the lab notebooks of Harold A. Wheeler (he of the Wheeler cap). He used the
> date format YYYYMMDD without any hyphens. He also explained why he used it.

that's one of the formats described in ISO 8601.

> I agree with his conclusions, and find it completely unambiguous and also
> useful in spreadsheets and programming, because of the inherent numerical
> order taken as one large number.

Ack.

Oliver
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Oliver Betz, Muenchen

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