I don't know the answer to that.
However, I do know that the INS and U.S. Customs use 2-digit dd-mm-yy
format.
I assume that is a simple recognition of the fact that nobody else uses the
mm-dd-yy format.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Hillger, Don
> Sent: January 04, 2001 12:35
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:10232] RE: 2 digit year
>
>
> 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]
>
>
