[ARC5] OT dates (was Bendix RA-1B receiver)

[Leslie Smith]

  There is an international standard that gives the format for dates as
  YYYY/MM/DD.
  I learned this from an associate, Ken Thompson.  Ken is an Australian,
  and therefore not THE Ken Thompson.
 

  73 de Les Smith
  vk2bcu at operamail.com


On Tue, May 13, 2014, at 12:54, John Saxon via ARC5 wrote:
> Just wanted to say also that as one who writes software used around the
> world, having to have your program be able to handle *3* date formats is
> a royal pain   (DD/MM/YYYY)  (MM/DD/YYYY) & (YYYY/MM/DD)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
>  From: Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
> To: Arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 9:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Bendix RA-1B receiver
>  
> 
> On 13 May 2014 at 14:15, AKLDGUY . wrote:
> 
> > American practice of writing dates as 4/22/2014 instead of 22/4/2014
> > *seems* a strange hierarchical order
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