John McKown wrote: >I use two forms. I personally prefer the yyyy-mm-dd format (RCF3339/ISO8601), >bugs the crud out of people at work. But I use "dd mon yyyy" on my checks. >Great for human reading, lousy for computer processing.
We in South Africa use whatever standard is convenient. yyyy-mm-dd, yyyy/mm/dd, dd mm yyyy, dd mon yyyy, etc. For myself, I 'mostly' use yyyy-mm-dd for sorting purposes, but in official docs, I (or rather we) use dd fullmonth yyyy. Aled Hughes wrote: >You still use checks John? I haven't used one in about 10 years! I don't even >think I own a checkbook anymore. I know some people swear by checks, but I >swear at the people using them in the line at grocery stores! As long your priest or pastor or parents are not near you... ;-) Here in Sunny South Africa, some firms ask from you a proof of residence documents and also ask for a cancelled check page (very rarily these days). So, I still have an unused checkbook sitting in a drawer. Hmmm, I need to check if that checkbook was not eaten by moths by this time... ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
