Thanks Bill!
Do you know if the U.S. military, which tends to say dates with the day
first, uses a dd/mm/yyyy all-numeric form? Certainly they have
encountered the possibility of confusion between that and "standard"
U.S. style?
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Potts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 2001 January 04 20:05
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:10231] RE: 2 digit year
M R wrote:
> Even after spending billions of dollars in correcting
> the Y2K problem, people still write the year in 2
> digit format. One should know that the following
> formats were used in different countries
>
> yyyy mm dd : is used in Japan, Korea and its also an
> international standard though the
> delimiter may be different.
>
> dd/mm/yyyy : is used in Britain and other commonwealth
> countries
>
> mm/dd/yyyy : is used in USA.
>
> and these formats may lead to a lot of confusion
> between year, month and day.
>
> Where ever they give only 2 digits for year, I will
> better write a single digit year, so that this will
> distract people from writing 2 digit year
If you haven't already done so, why don't you visit
http://metric1.org/dateandtime.htm?
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
