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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:26:44 +0200
From: Jan Lahmeyer <J.Lahmeyer@library.uu.nl>
Subject: Re: Business 2.0 // and way of stating year - months - days

Subject:                Business 2.0 (2 messages)
To:                     SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU

> ----------(1)
> From mquirk@USNEWS.COM Thu Oct  5 14:48:57 2000
> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:14:19 -0400
> From: Mary Kay Quirk <mquirk@USNEWS.COM>
> Subject: Re: Business 2.0 (Laura C. Wood)
>
> We have received 13 issues of Business 2.0  so far, I think we are
> missing numbers 17 and 18 which would have been the September issues.
> The numbers seem to have jumped when it went from a monthly to a
> semimonthly, which occurred in June.  Below are is our libraries check in
> record.
>
> Number             Issue Date                           Date Received
>
>  1                   Jan 2000                              2000 02 22
>  2                   Feb 2000                              2000 02 22
>  3                   Mar 2000                              2000 02 22
>  4                   Apr 2000                              2000 03 23
>  5                   May 2000                              2000 04 17
>  6                   Jun 13 2000                           2000 05 26
>  7                   June 27 2000                          2000 06 07
> 13                   Jul 11 2000                           2000 06 26
> 14                   Jul 25 2000                           2000 07 07
> 15                   Aug 8 2000                            2000 07 18
> 16                   Aug 22 2000                           2000 08 01
> 19                   Oct 10 2000                           2000 09 25
> 20                   Oct 24 2000                           2000 10 03
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My dearest North-American Serialst,

In the above tables I find a remarkable contradiction in the North-
American way of stating dates. But in some cases the used
computer programs may break that "rule"? - As I see here above!

The North-American method however is quite confusing to us
Europeans when the order "Month - day - year" is used. Has that
something to do with the American "belief" that they "rule" the
world?
Compare for instance: Miles - Kilometers // Gallons - Liters, etc.

Here in Europe - generally spoken - we tend to follow the method
"Year - month - day", according to standards in the ISO-norms.

Also the order "Day - month - year" is still much used over here,
but that method is regarded to be somewhat old-fashioned.

I hope some day soon every country in the world will use ISO-
norms and we get rid of all those conversion tables.

Best regards,
Jan
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