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  • Subject: Re: Y2K heads up - is this trouble???
  • From: Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 12:02:24 -0500
  • Organization: Arbor Solutions, Inc

My favorite format for at LEAST 10 years has been 02/Mar/01. No
ambiguity. A pain to enter perhaps, but that's not my job! I think the
mm/dd/yy, dd/mm/yy ambiguity will not be a disaster but is guarenteed to
create some problems here and there.

 - Larry

> What is 03/02/01?  March 2nd, 2001?   Or February 1st, 2003???
> 
> What is 01/02/01?  January 2, 2001?    Or February 1st, 2001???

-- 
Larry Bolhuis
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
(616) 451-2500
(616) 451-2571 -fax
lbolhuis@arbsol.com
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