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Subject: Re: Date formats (was Frank Doherty will be back on Tuesday (all being well))
From: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:47:12 -0500
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"some countries"? How about "just about all". MDY is such an unusual format that in IBM date terms the four digit year version is designated as *USA!

When I was working on IBM's Y2K offerings the contractor that produced the tool did not originally include an MDY version as they had never heard of it. As a result (and luckily for them) they had never encountered the idiotic multiply by 10000.01 conversion method either.

Jon Paris

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On Dec 14, 2009, at 12:23 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

In some countries, the date order is DD/MM/YYYY, instead of MM/DD/ YYYY as is
the custom in th US.

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