On 2011-09-11, David Billington wrote:

I wasn't born when JFK got shot by about a year but I can remember

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As a side question what is the background to the US date system of
month/day/year as it seems nonsensical to me, I lived with it for 12
years when in the US, but ascending or descending precedence make
sense but mixed precedence seems bizarre.

I have to agree, and I have to live with it all the time.
(Except when *I* define the format. I tend to prefer YYYY-MM-DD so files
so marked will sort in chronological order. (And the '-' because on
unix, '/' is the subdirectory delimiter.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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