At 3:19 PM EST on March 12 Sven Guckes sent off: > I am aware that the short date form like 020312 could be mistaken for > 1902-03-12 or 2102-03-12 - but so far it has not been a problem. ;-)
You sound like a 1970s COBOL programmer ;-> Anyway, if I didn't know that today is March 12, 2002, I'd be tempted to read 020312 as an American zip code, or Feb. 3, 2012. 6 digits just aren't very robust when taken out of context, or read with someone else's context. -- Can vegetarians eat animal crackers? - Jack Handey (Yes - R.R.) Robert I. Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/ PGP Key: http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/pgp.html
