I've just got some new cheques from HSBC in Canada, and, because Canadians
used to use d-m-y, but many now use the American m-d-y (because that's the
default for most US software sold in Canada), my cheques are very specific
in how the date is written: yyyy-mm-dd. It would be a huge benefit if
everyone, Americans included, adopted that standard. BTW, it is not only
Europeans who use d-m-y. Most of the rest of the world also uses it.
John F-L
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Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:00 PM
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Subject: [USMA:52555] Date Format
Stanislav. I appreciate the information you sent about date and time.
In my mind, the yyyy mm dd date format makes sense for sticking on the
end of file names so the files remain in alphabetical order. My United
States passport uses 26 Mar 2013 format, which I prefer to use in all
other cases because spelling out the month ensures that no person can
mix the day up with the month. We have an International Trade section
where I work, and I remember seeing a contract signed by someone in
England along with a scrawled-in date using numbers only, 10 11 2004
which caused confusion because the person who signed the contract
meant to convey 10 November, but it was misinterpreted in our office
as October 11. Please see the date triangle graphic on my
MetricPioneer.wordpress.com blog.
David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:10:08 -0400
From: Stanislav Jakuba <[email protected]>
Subject: Hi
To: [email protected]
David:
I sent you the Date & Time article because I noticed your European way of
D M Y. To be metric to me means to go with ISO standards overall. SI
units is just one ISO standard. The cited Date & Time ISO standard bridges
the differences among all nations with its y m d sequence as described in
the article. So I thought that if you must annoy (:-) Americans with
something unfamiliar, it should not be a European standard, but rather an
International standard. All my industrial clients have adopted the ISO
sequence and I have been using it since it's issuance a 1/2 century ago. I
hope you will also.
On a different subject, if you send me your address I will mail you my SAE
paper about SI. I have extra copies from years past. Perhaps you can
enlighten a few people in the financial/government sector.
Stan
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