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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> jak <nospam@please.ty> writes:

[about different date formats]

>> So, someone follows the ISO convention and others Julian but I
>> read somewhere that the ISO convention had to be followed in the
>> computer scope.
>
> Where did you read that?  ISO has no police force.  [...]

Note that there are organizations that mandate compliance with
some ISO standards under certain circumstances even though the
organizations themselves have no direct relationship with ISO.