RE: Week_ISO and the last week of 2008

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eduard Sluis
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:51 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Week_ISO and the last week of 2008

Hi John,
mm-dd-yy is not a commonly understood format.
It is only understood in the USA.
For the USA market we specifically had to add to our
UserPreferences entries for dates and amounts so these could
be presented in the *USA format because persons in the USA 
miss interprete dates (Like the whole worlds does when these
are not presented in *ISO format).
See:
http://www.iso.org/iso/support/faqs/faqs_widely_used_standards
/widely_used_standards_other/date_and_time_format.htm
When does the USA becomes a part of the world??
The world is *ISO and Metric and is able to count to 24 when
it is about time.

Eduard Sluis.

Ya got my vote. The only date format that I use, unless otherwise forced, is ISO8601. But I am totally committed to pounds, gallons, and miles. This despite the fact that my weight sounds so much better in kilograms! <grin>

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