On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:29:06 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:

> In article >,
> ChattyCathy > wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:43:14 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:
>
>> > Steve and I are from the US. That means that 09/04/2009 translates
>> > to the fourth day of September of the year 2009.
>
>> <g> Shoulda spotted that... I keep forgetting that the US has it's
>> day/month format front-to-back, um, I mean back-to-front. That's why we
>> should all stick to the yyyy-mm-dd like most well behaved mainframes
>> and computers do...
>
> You've just gotta put the important things first. My father is 92
> (maybe 93, I'm not good at these things) and has senile dementia. I
> talked to him on the phone yesterday and he asked me about the weather.
> He always wants to know about the weather, that's pretty important to
> him. So I told him, and he commented that that was pretty warm for
> London. Then he caught himself, and said he knew I didn't live in
> London. But where *did* I live? I've been in California for the last
> 35 years. I went to visit him last spring, and he always wanted to know
> what the date was. My sister or I would tell him the day of the month,
> and he'd get frustrated. No, he didn't care what day it was, they were
> all the same. He wanted to know what *month* it was. OK. Once you
> told him the month, then he'd relate that to the weather.
>
> So, the point is, the month goes first, because it's the most important.

Depends. I had a co-worker years ago who thought the day of the month was
more important. He'd look at the calendar and say, "Hmm. It's only the
15th, dammit. There's still too much month left at the end of my money."

;-)

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Chatty Cathy