RE: DATFMT

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

For  2000 
1/3 of the confusion goes away. [ a third we  never new from 1901- 1931]
 Then in 2001 it returns in full for  31  years.
                 01/02/03  is ? or  31/12/12?
                   or  something  like that
GLENN

At 02:08 PM 7/24/98 -0400, you wrote:
>On Friday, July 24, 1998 1:11 PM, Neil Wood [SMTP:neil@neil.org] wrote:
>> >            D'01/02/98' + *DAYS(1)
>>
>> >would be ambiguous.  Would the result be '02/02/98' or
>> >'01/03/98'?  Americans would expect one answer, Europeans the
>> >other.
>>
>> I guess I must be a little ignorant.  To me this would always mean add
>> one
>> day to 01/02/98.  Which would be 01/03/98.  Is that the American answer?
>
>My British Mum writes 3 Jan 98 as 03/01/98.  In the US 03/01/98 is seen as 
>1 March 98.
>
>Buck Calabro
>Commsoft, Albany, NY
>mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
>
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