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Old 13 Aug 2004, 08:27 am
Milleron
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Default Re: OT: For spotters of unusual odometer readings...

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:48:49 -0400, "Keith J" <_keith_757@comcast.net>
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>in the states we write our dates as month/day/year, where the photo has
>day/month/year, the same as the date on the paper.


Almost the entire world writes dates dd/mm/yyyy, which is, in fact,
more logical than mm/dd/yyyy.
I think we should be less ethnocentric and join them. Interestingly,
but still WAY off topic, some segments of the US military have
recently adopted the format, yyyymmdd with no separators. Today is
20040813 in the USAF.

>"Im anonymous" <acctforjunk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:bffabe31.0408111422.8a34f79@posting.google.c om...
>> > regularly, and I thought there were bound to be some
>> > other folk like me who look out for particular odometer
>> > readings (e.g. 654321, 111111, 123456 etc.)
>> >
>> > Earlier today, my car was showing this reading:
>> > http://www.bat400.com/images/odo1.gif (gif/53k)
>> >
>> > Can you see why it's significant?
>> > If not then this clue might help:
>> > http://www.bat400.com/images/odo2.gif (gif/79k)

>>
>> Interesting, but I don't know what this has to do with anything.

>


Ron
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