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Posted by Ed Mullen on 07/28/07 08:23
rf wrote:
> "Toby A Inkster" <usenet200707@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:4k2pn4-nvu.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk...
>> Paul Furman wrote:
>
>> Don't do that. YMD is good: it's unambiguous. MDY is a weird-ass,
>> ambiguous
>> date format, used by a tiny proportion of the world's population.
>
> I once did the demographics on this, starting with the Windows region
> settings through to some site that lists the population of each country.
>
> The biggest of course is the U S of A with ~4.5% of the planets population.
>
> The other 10 or so countries that use MDY add up to a further 1% or so.
>
> So, the tiny proportion is around 5.5%. And they think they own the internet
> :-)
>
Hey! Al Gore /invented/ the Internet!!!
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