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Re: Date formats (was Frank Doherty will be back on Tuesday (all being well))

I think the illogical *USA date format is more a statistical solution to
compare months' profits over the years.

Or is there another reason for this format?

With regards,
Carel Teijgeler


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On 14-12-2009 at 12:47 Jon Paris wrote:

"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.



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