The US military has traditionally used a three-letter month abbreviation
(e.g., 17JUL93) which avoids the chance of confusion that occurs with
all-numeric dates. In looking over my old military records, I can find only
a few examples of all-numeric dates, but these are in the traditional US
format: mm/dd/yy. However, I recall someone on this list told us that they
had seen new military ID cards in the ISO format: yyyy-mm-dd.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Bill Potts
> Sent: 2001 January 4 Thursday 13:54
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:10234] RE: 2 digit year
>
>
> 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]
> >
> >
>
>
