Re: Date formats

Sorry Glen
completely disagree
which is "first"
12/15/09
or
12/01/10



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If you use numeric fields for your dates I think mmddyy has a more
'natural' sort then ddmmyy. Of course, being from the US, I'm biased. :)

Glenn

Carel Teijgeler wrote:

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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