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From: comm@zeus.bris.ac.uk (M. Murray)
Subject: Re: Wierd U.S. Date Order : M,D,Y
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:52:29 GMT
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Mike Wright (darwin@scruznet.com) wrote:
: 
: As a programmer, I would prefer YY/MM/DD, as used in many Asian
: countries. Dates in this format can be sorted with no preprocessing.
: That's what I now use in my database files.

Only as long as you write 97/01/01 etc, otherwise 97/10/10 will come
before 97/7/7. Anyone yet seen a computer which will sort "7 " (note the
intentional space) before "10"? 

-- 
Martin Murray :: School of Chemistry, Bristol University, BS8 1TS, England
