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Re: USA Economy 2-8-2011

From Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: USA Economy 2-8-2011
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Date 2011-07-31 18:03 -0700
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Michael Angelo Ravera <maravera@prodigy.net> writes:

> On Jul 29, 3:43 am, Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REM...@gmail.REMOVE.com>
> wrote:
>> In comp.lang.c, John Gordon wrote:
>>
>> > I think he is using the European date standard, which is day-month-year
>> > so that would be August second.
>>
>> For "day month year" there should be dot used as a separator: 02.08.2011
>> - for "month day year" - a slash:  08/02/2011
>> - for "year month day" - a hyphen: 2011-08-02
>>
>> No more ambiguity! ;)
>
> How about we adopt the "Worldwide Computing Standard" which is Year-
> Month-Day. In ost of East Asia Y.M.D is standard.

How about giving at least three letters of the name of the month?
2 Aug. 2011.  Then (nearly?) everybody will be able to figure out what
you mean.

-- Patrick

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[OT] USA Economy 2-8-2011 "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-07-28 20:32 +0200
  Re: [OT] USA Economy 2-8-2011 gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-07-28 20:55 +0000
    Re: [OT] USA Economy 2-8-2011 John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-07-28 22:03 +0000
      Re: [OT] USA Economy 2-8-2011 gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-07-28 22:06 +0000
      Re: [OT] USA Economy 2-8-2011 Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2011-07-29 12:43 +0200
        Re: USA Economy 2-8-2011 Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-30 05:15 -0700
        Re: USA Economy 2-8-2011 Michael Angelo Ravera <maravera@prodigy.net> - 2011-07-30 13:22 -0700
          Re: USA Economy 2-8-2011 Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2011-07-31 18:03 -0700
            [OT] Date formats (was: USA Economy 2-8-2011) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-08-01 13:56 +0100
              Re: [OT] Date formats Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-08-01 15:25 +0200
                Re: [OT] Date formats Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-08-01 14:32 +0100
  Re: [OT] USA Economy 2-8-2011 Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-07-29 22:29 -0600
  Re: [OT] USA Economy 2-8-2011 "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-07-30 09:16 +0200
  Re: USA Economy 2-8-2011 Michael Angelo Ravera <maravera@prodigy.net> - 2011-07-30 13:42 -0700
    Re: USA Economy 2-8-2011 gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-07-30 21:26 +0000
    Re: USA Economy 2-8-2011 jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-07-31 16:28 +0200
  Re: [OT] USA Economy 2-8-2011 jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-07-30 23:03 +0200
    Re: [OT] USA Economy 2-8-2011 jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-07-31 12:03 +0200
    Re: [OT] USA Economy 2-8-2011 "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-08-01 08:13 +0200
      Re: [OT] USA Economy 2-8-2011 jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-08-01 20:53 +0200
        Re: [OT] USA Economy 2-8-2011 Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-08-01 12:31 -0700
  Re: [OT] USA Economy 2-8-2011 Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-07-31 12:20 -0700

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