My active duty military experience ran from 1969 to 1990, so that's the
basis of my answer. Yes, the military at that time used (and specified)
dd MMM yyyy format, as in 4 January 2001 or 4 Jan 2001. Ambiguity was
avoided by nearly always using the spelled out name for the month or the
three letter symbol, as above. I remember those formats being specified
in the Navy Correspondance Manual and in the various Naval
Communications manuals.
Back then, "military date format" was the odd ball and virtually nobody
else (in the US, at least) used it. I used to be teased regularly by
civilians when I used it out of habit in civilian situations. Later it
became a bit more popular in business and technical correspondance.
Jim
"Hillger, Don" wrote:
>
> 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
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