Re: Silicon Sea date notation
Subject: Re: Silicon Sea date notation
From: Paul Hirose (paulhirose@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 16:31:06 EST
Dan Hogan wrote:
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> Silicon Sea date notation is MMDDYYYY because the program I use to calculate
You meant to say DD/MM/YYYY, right? Looking at the previous two legs,
it appears that is the normal convention aboard Silicon Sea. As for
leaving it unchanged, no problem, I can cope. But this certainly
points out how confusing numeric dates can be!
The U.S. military (or the Air Force, at least) for umpteen years used
dates like 13 Nov 02. Around the Y2K scare it became common to use all
four digits in the dates. But in recent years the ISO style has made
inroads. Before I retired in 2000, it was mandatory in personnel
performance appraisal forms and aircraft maintenance documents.
