Posted by Blinky the Shark on 09/19/07 02:48

rf wrote:

>
> "Paul Furman" <paul-@-edgehill.net> wrote in message
> news:47%Hi.9082$z_5.811@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com...
>> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> On 2007-09-17, bizshop wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>Oh, and I could change 2007-06-24 to 6-24-07
>>>>
>>>>No need for the dashes - and 20070624.is ISO proper.
>>>
>>> ISO requires the dashes, and it is 2007-06-24 not the
>>> nonsensical 6-24-07.
>>
>> I've got both systems now. 6-24-07 is what I'm most comfortable
>> with
>
> You might be but less that 5% of the planet uses that format.
> The other 95% will wonder what the 24th month of the year is.

You don't seem to think that that other 95% of the people on the
planet are very intelligent if you think that when they see "6-24-
07" they don't simply realize it's "the other system" and interpret
that way -- the way the 5% is smart enough to do that when we see
"24-6-07". Of course, you could be right.

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