Re: Cross-posting to *.answers

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Dan Brown (brown@eff.org)
Mon, 21 Feb 1994 21:24:02 -0500 (EST)


>> Why should we be forced to use MM/DD/YY
>> for the date? International users may interpret 12/1/93 to be the 12th day
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>I use spelled-out dates (eg 21 February 1994) for exactly this reason, and
>haven't gotten my wrist slapped yet :-).

hmmm... I got warned recently (would have to dig up the bit of email to
remember who, but...) for using yymmdd, which though a bit cryptic, works
for any number of things.

>reason to vary (eg, newsgroup order) why not just do it their way? Possibly
>jik knows something you don't. If he explained the detailed reasons behind

As you can see, my faq is getting posted, so, as far as I know, I am doing
things their way... they are afterall the moderators of n.a.

Dunno... just got rubbed the wrong way at somepoint about this whole stuff.

The views expressed in this message are mine, not EFF's.
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