On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:03:17 -0400, Arny Krueger
wrote:

"Chris Croughton" wrote in message
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:00:11 -0400, Arny Krueger
wrote:

Of course. Since I'm flexible and make these translations all the time in US
NGs, I (perhaps mistakenly) presumed that this would be obvious elsewhere.

What would be obvious? Something like 8/7 is not at all obvious, even
if the reader knows your nationality, because some people convert and
others don't.

This happens to be /UK/ newsgroups, wherever you are sitting.

The same principle doesn't prevent the reverse thing from happening. In most
situations people look at dates, apply the relevant transformations and move
on.

No, in most situations people are sensible and disambiguate dates,
writing the month as a word for instance. Or using an international
standard format which is unambiguous by definition (since no one uses
yyyy-dd-mm). And when they do make a mistake and use their local format
they apologise and say "Yes, that's what I meant, sorry" or something
like that.

Chris C