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<p dir="auto">On 11 Jun 2020, at 10:09, Pete Resnick wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Charlie: First, do note that this is for the intro line in the message, not the Date: header field, which would be used for the important stuff. The Date: field is formatted unambiguously as part of the protocol. For the intro bit, it's already ambiguous in that it doesn't include the time zone, so no need to get too fussy about that part.</p>
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<p dir="auto">As someone who grew up using US dates, and then switched 30 years ago, I know both sides. And it's the human reading the intro line I was referring to; humans are easily confused by nature. I know to accept both formats, and I can still get it wrong.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Also, totally numeric is OK if you follow RFC 3339, which has a nice format of yyyy-mm-dd. Even though you could switch month and day, even us stupid Americans don't usually do that when the year comes first; it's so unusual to have the year first, that we generally figure out that the month comes next. ;-)</p>
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<p dir="auto">Sure, the iso8601 standard is fine. But I made an assumption :-O that "uncouth Americans" would not use that format. If using iso8601, then all numbers is just fine and dandy.</p>
<p dir="auto">-cng</p>
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Garrison Computer Services <http://www.garrison.com.au>
PO Box 380
Tumbarumba NSW 2653 Australia
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