On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:51:25 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> On 04/10/2011 10:47 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>> Le 03/10/2011 22:11, Alain a écrit :
>>> I always wonder WHY the USA kept that colonial mesurment system.
>>
>> The "Not made here" syndrom.
>> USA is proud of its own system.
> 
> Ah. Is /that/ why they're the only country on Earth who can't write the
> date in any consistent order?

Pretty consistently the format used is MM/DD/YYYY (separators might vary).

Myself, when dealing with an international audience, I'll use a format 
like the one in my quote attribution line (04 Oct 2011) so there's no 
ambiguity.

Jim

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