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"Europeans tend to think in terms of day-month-year"

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Metralla

In Reply to: RE: I think the year is not the issue posted by E-Stat on March 14, 2015 at 17:50:12

Not just Europe. Australia, New Zealand, India, North Africa, South America and a lot of others are D-M-Y.

Interestingly, China is Y-M-D.

US and Belize are M-D-Y. Canadians cannot agree and support all 3. ;)

Regards,
Geoff

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Canada is a melting pot - RGA 17:51:19 03/15/15 (0)
Sorta British - sorta American.

I like pounds, feet and inches, mph, and Month/Day/Year simply because it's easier to say "it's March 1st" than "it's the 1st of March" (use the active voice or some such thing). Prefer Celsius - water freezing at 0 degrees makes more sense to me.

Personally I write the month in letters not numbers. The order doesn't matter so much but because countries put them in different orders I want the month spelled Mar/March and this removes any problems.
That is why I always spell the month, e.g. 14 Mar 2015 - Dave_K 09:55:51 03/15/15 (1)
I find it's the only way to avoid confusion when writing dates.
- RE: exactly. language comes to the rescue [n.t.a.] - wangmr 04:15:39 03/19/15 (0)
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