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   From: genew@telus.net   
      
   On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:09:03 -0600, Greg Goss  wrote:   
      
   >Robert Bannister  wrote:   
      
   >>If only everyone would adopt that.   
   >   
   >In Canada, half the people use the European standard, and half use the   
   >US standard.  To resolve the confusion, the government specified as   
   >part of the metric conversion that dates would now be specified in ISO   
   >(yyyy-mm-dd) but I think I was just about the only one to make the   
   >switch.   
      
        No, I have done it, too.  My credit union's cheques used to have   
   the date digit boxes in DDMMYY, but have now been using ISO 8601 for a   
   few years now.   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   Gene wirchenko   
      
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