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Re: Question for you, Mike.



Amy <aet at mail_dntcj.ro> sez:
>> someone said sometime that:
>
>> > my "Countdown to the Millenium" calendar sez that today is 03.29.99...

Today *is* March 29, 1999.   Just thought you should know.

>now here's a funny thing for all of you... here you right the address different
>that you do in the states. so today is *actually* (here that is, well, it was)
>29-3-99 :-) can throw your mind some. Especially in times where it's like 5-3-99
>and you are trying to guess which way you are suppose to read it! :-)

Yes, in Europe they use dd/mm/yy instead of the North American mm/dd/yy.

Of course, every good programmer knows to write the date as yyyymmdd for
sorting purposes.
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