I wonder if we should add this to best practice just for memory sake. I know 
we've talked about it before but we have enough people doing social now that 
the best practices can serve a bit as the institutional memory. It's a date 
format used really "only" in the US and so should really avoided (Other ways to 
adjust include spelling out months/using short month names "nov" etc.

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> On Dec 1, 2015, at 08:14, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Probably my fault for being too slow, but "12/1/1952" really ought to be "on 
> this day in 1952". That date is in January for a lot of people :)
> 
>> On 1 December 2015 at 15:25, Gregory Varnum <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Stupendous!
>> 
>> -greg
>> 
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>>> On Dec 1, 2015, at 10:21 AM, Jeff Elder <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yes!
>>> 
>>> Jeff Elder
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>>>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Gregory Varnum <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> LGTM
>>>> 
>>>> Are we posting something for World AIDS Day?
>>>> 
>>>> -greg
>>>> 
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>>>>> On Dec 1, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Jeff Elder <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 12/1/1952, media reported on Christine Jorgensen, 1st widely known 
>>>>> person to have sex reassignment surgery. 
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Jorgensen?wprov=sfti1
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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