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Subject: Re: Pebble beach, Puerto Vallarta MEX
From: "Martyn Stewart" mijdog2000
Date: Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:54 pm ((PDT))
Yet, when you fly into the USA they insist on day/month/year on the  
landing cards! go figure....




Martyn
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On Mar 22, 2010, at 5:19 PM, John Lundsten wrote:

> Re date numbers
> Can't help feeling the Logical format would be Biggest, less big,  
> smallest,
> you know the way numbers generally work.
> So Year/month/day & if you want time, Hrs/Min/Sec/sub div of secs, say
> samples, frames decimal fractions of a second.
>
> I belive the Japanese do date this way, and everyone does time this  
> way
>
> The Euro or US way is just what folk are used to. Neither make any  
> sense at
> all!
>
> Being in the UK, USA dates cause me massive grief, particularly for  
> the 1st
> 12 days of a month. Probably just my cultural xenophobia, but the  
> USA norm
> seems the most nonsensical method.
>
> Reckon an internationally friendly way to write a date is have the  
> Month as
> letters {in English of course:-) sorry some xenophobia} Eg in Europe &
> Australia 23/Mar/2010 or USA Mar/23/2010 or otherwise 2010/Mar/23
>
> John L
>
>
>
> 










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