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Stefan Schimanski sts at 1stein.org
Mon Oct 9 10:33:13 CDT 2006


> Amazing. The release was a month ago (9/10/06). :-)

Quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date:

"This order is used in the United States and countries with
U.S. influence (but the U.S. federal government sometimes uses day,
month, year). England originally used day, month, year, then for a short
while used month, day, year, and finally reverted to the original form
(day, month, year) which was revived around 1900; the USA chose to stick
with month, day, year, but did originally use day, month, year as the
English did."

(Month, Day, Year) is just confusing and not logical. But maybe the
Americans think differently :-) And btw some more countries seem to
think the same:

Albania, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil,
Bulgaria, Canada (All 3 main types are used in Canada- in French and in
English), Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic (d.m.yyyy), Denmark
(often in the fraction form d/m-y otherwise dd-mm-yyyy or dd-mm-yy),
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland (d.m.y),
France, Germany (form -Y´d.m.yyyy¡ is still often used; but see
below), Greece, Guyana, Hong Kong (in English), Iceland, Ireland, India,
Israel, Italy, Kenya, Latvia (dd.mm.yyyy is used more often, but
official standard is year-month-day), Macau (in Portuguese & English),
Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway (d.m.y; the fraction
form d/m-y is common, but incorrect), Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Russia, Slovakia (d.m.yyyy), Slovenia, Spain, Singapore, Sweden
(in the fraction form d/m-y, otherwise yyyy-mm-dd), Switzerland,
Thailand (with Buddhist Era instead of Common Era), Turkey, Ukraine
(dd.mm.yyyy), United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela

Schimmi
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