Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23952 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2003 18:51:38 -0000 Received: from netmail02.services.quay.plus.net (212.159.14.221) by mailstore with SMTP; 7 Jan 2003 18:51:38 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received: (qmail 27908 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2003 18:51:33 -0000 Received: from post.thorcom.com (193.82.116.70) by netmail02.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 7 Jan 2003 18:51:33 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-SQ: A X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.12) id 18Vyo1-0005ui-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 18:50:29 +0000 Received: from [207.136.80.125] (helo=twiddle.look.ca) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18Vyo1-0005uZ-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 18:50:29 +0000 Received: from bc-van-mut-a53-10-90.look.ca ([216.66.146.90]) by twiddle.look.ca with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 18Vynv-0001ZC-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 13:50:24 -0500 X-Sender: eldridge@direct.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org From: "Bob Eldridge " Message-ID: Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 13:50:24 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Subject: LF: Date format X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=6.0tests=SPAM_PHRASE_00_01version=2.43 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false >Isn't the most logical one YYYY/MM/dd ? >Does anyone use this format routinely ? >Andy G4JNT> This has been the international standard for at least 25 years, intended to avoid the confusion between the U.S. and the rest of the world. I adopted it for everything in the days of Comm 64, as the computer automatically sorted dates as if they were numbers, and hours and minutes could be added as well for logging. The Year 2K mess should have converted everyone! Bob VE7BS