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.
>
> :-)

'who the **** are these people, and why do they want to know who the
president is?'

your pal,
blake