Re: DATFMT

["Rick Baird" <rbbaird@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

While I'm used to the US standard, the european way makes much more
sense.  just like time, it is in (reverse) order of importance, rather
than mixed.

Hans Boldt wrote:
> 
> Neil 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?
> 
> Yep!  I've been to Europe several times. and the European
> standard sometimes confuses the heck out of me.
> 
> I try to avoid the ambiguity myself by using either ISO format,
> or an abbreviation of the month name.  One of my hobbies is
> genealogy, where a common date format is 24JUL1998.  (Of course,
> genealogists have been Y2K compliant for years!)
> 
> Cheers!  Hans
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