Re: OT: date references as [yymmdd]

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:04:19AM +, Simon White wrote: > 13-Mar-02 at 09:35, Sven Guckes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > I started using "[yymmdd]" as a date indicator on my webpages > > before Markus Kuhn wrote ISO-8601 (in 1995) - so sue me! ;-) > > Well, that's no excuse for not having

Re: OT: date references as [yymmdd]

2002-03-13 Thread Simon White
13-Mar-02 at 09:35, Sven Guckes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > I started using "[yymmdd]" as a date indicator on my webpages > before Markus Kuhn wrote ISO-8601 (in 1995) - so sue me! ;-) Well, that's no excuse for not having become year 2000 compliant. The big problem with dates is the American

Re: OT: date references as [yymmdd]

2002-03-13 Thread Sven Guckes
* Michael Bain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020313 07:44]: > * Rob Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12 Mar 2002 15:44]: > > I'm against 6 digit dates as a communication > > standard because they're easy to misinterpret. > Same; hence my choice of the above attribution :-) It's bad enough > trying to sort out 12/