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Re: Re: date format

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• Subject: [mg80857] Re: [mg80826] Re: date format
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 03:47:52 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

For the same reasons that in the U.S. we still use miles and ounces, etc.?

rob wrote:
> It appears that the natural output of Date[] has
> year, month, day, etc which puts the least significant value 
> on the right, just like most other numbering systems. I've 
> always wondered why most people don't use this simple 
> convention for dates.  
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    • From: rob <josh2499@hotmail.com>