• on the matter of date formats

    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Martin Foster on Wed Sep 30 08:19:00 2020
    Hello Martin!

    ** On Wednesday 30.09.20 - 09:18, Martin Foster wrote to Chuck Pierson:

    Although I've lived in the UK all my life and was brought
    up to use the British date format(dd/mm/yyyy), I now much
    prefer to use the European date format(dd.mm.yyyy).


    The "." vs "/" makes no difference to me. Albiet, I am partial
    to the "." when illustrating a phone number (See the very top
    of my biz website: https://ashlies.ca

    When I worked in industry where the client was primarily the
    military, the spec documents and other correspondences used
    what I call the odemeter arrangement for the date:

    yyyy mm dd, or yyyymmdd

    That made the most sense for me. It was super easy to sort
    files and instantly see the proper order of things.

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