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Re: happy palindrome day - and a challenge [message #26892] Wed, 03 October 2001 03:54 Go to next message
Martin Downing is currently offline  Martin Downing
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"Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz> wrote in message
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>>> Today is 10-02-2001
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>> No it's not, it's 2001-10-02.
>
> Oops. It's actually 2001-01-03.
>
Excelent! is this ground-hog year?
Re: happy palindrome day - and a challenge [message #26895 is a reply to message #26892] Tue, 02 October 2001 19:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mark Hadfield is currently offline  Mark Hadfield
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>> Today is 10-02-2001
>
> No it's not, it's 2001-10-02.

Oops. It's actually 2001-01-03.

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Re: happy palindrome day - and a challenge [message #26896 is a reply to message #26895] Tue, 02 October 2001 19:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mark Hadfield is currently offline  Mark Hadfield
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> Today is 10-02-2001

No it's not, it's 2001-10-02.

See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

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Re: happy palindrome day - and a challenge [message #26958 is a reply to message #26896] Wed, 03 October 2001 13:21 Go to previous message
thompson is currently offline  thompson
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"Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz> writes:

>> Today is 10-02-2001

> No it's not, it's 2001-10-02.

> See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

Here, here! My European colleagues would claim that 10-02-2001 was back in
February. The ISO standard is far superior for computer uses, and doesn't
confuse either Americans or the rest of the world.

William Thompson
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