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Re: Silicon Sea date notation


Subject: Re: Silicon Sea date notation
From: Dan Hogan (dhhogan1@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 19:28:46 EST


On 13 Nov 2002, at 13:31, Paul Hirose wrote:
AAARRRrrgggghhhh!!!

                ***** DDMMYYYY ******
> Dan Hogan wrote:
> >
> > 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!

Cheers
-Dan-





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