Posted by Bill on 04/05/06 16:46

Ohhh! Now I get it.

Since I got my first computer, around 1986 (an Apple IIc) and needed to
keep large numbers of files sorted chronologically, I have been using
YYYYMMDD and I wish everyone would just get over it and switch over in
North America, were we don't even seem to have a consensus on whether
it's MMDDYYYY or DDMMYYYY. For the computer age, YYYYMMDD is most
logical. The government should take the lead and declare a "standard".

I look forward to 20060504030201 in about a month.

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:

> You mean 100 years - and except for Europe and the rest of the world
> outside the USA - where this happens in 4 weeks since we write our
> dates correctly as 04/03/05 ?
>
> Cheers - Neil

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