Milleron wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:48:49 -0400, "Keith J" <_keith_757@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>>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.

Who besides the Europeans?

> I think we should be less ethnocentric and join them.

I don't agree - if Y2K taught us anything, it's that both days or months
first are not a good idea.

> 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.

QED

Years ago some people at IBM were trying to adopt the dd MON yyyy
format, e.g., 14 AUG 2004, to eliminate any doubt about the date format.
IIRC the military used that format for a while. It's great for visual
differentiation.