OT: Re: Date format

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:14 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Fri April 2 2010, John Aldrich wrote:
> > 
> > Interesting. I didn't realize that *everyone* else used the other format
> > for dates. I really was under the impression that most everyone in North
> > America used the same date format (i.e. Mexico, Canada, USA, etc.) I
> > won't swear to it, but I'm reasonably familiar with our friends to the
> > north and south of the US, and I was pretty sure they used the same
> > date format we do here in the US.
> >
> Note: I don't mean to sound like I didn't believe you. I just didn't know. 
> I really wasn't trying to sound sarcastic, it just sorta came across that 
> way. :-)

Not to worry, I didn't think you were being sarcastic. BTW the notion
that Mexico (or any Latin country) would use the MM/DD notation just
sounds surreal :-)

poc