OT: Re: Date format

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 04/02/2010 12:11 PM, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Fri April 2 2010, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>> Not quite the same thing. UK and US English are different in some
>> respects ("two countries divided by the same language") but at least
>> it's clear that we're talking about specific regions and their
>> peculiarities (not to mention the local differences even within those
>> regions) so we can all make allowances. In the case of date formats,
>> it's the US versus everyone else and it actually does lead to ambiguity
>> in some cases.
>>
> [snip]
>> Not that I expect this to change of course.
>>
> 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.

In Canada we are supposed to use DD/MM/YYY :-)




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