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   Johann Beretta to Winston   
   Re: I need dual band recommendation   
   13 Jun 19 02:07:18   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: beretta@nun-ya-bizness.com   
      
   On 6/11/19 8:54 AM, Winston wrote:   
   > Johann Beretta  writes:   
   >> I much prefer the European method of Day, Month, Year as it makes   
   >> computer lists sort in a much saner way, but......   
   >   
   > Huh?  If the goal is easy sorting of lines of text containing dates, a   
   > format such as YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS is what sorts trivially into time   
   > sequence order.  With Day, Month, Year, wouldn't July 6th (6/7) end up   
   > between June 6th and 7th (6/6 and 7/6)?   
   >   -WBE   
   >   
   Oh yeah.. you got me, I was thinking of that and writing totally   
   different..  I was thinking of month then day.. But you're absolutely   
   correct that having the year in the front is what makes the lists sorts   
   easily.   
      
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