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From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Israeli Faces From Earlier Today :-)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 10:45:24 +0200
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On 2024-03-30 16:30:46 +0000, Volney said:

> On 3/30/2024 5:05 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
>> On 2023-10-09 23:26:17 +0000, Volney said:
>> 
>>> On 10/9/2023
>> 
>> What happened on the tenth of September? Ah, right, you are following 
>> the bizarre American way of writing dates.
>> 
>>> 6:06 AM, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>> 
> It's the way this newsreader is configured, and I'm in the US with all 
> the 'only in the US' quirks. To be honest the 'rest of the world' way 
> throws me off often. I'd personally prefer a year/month/day format 
> myself, similar to hour:min:second and is in sorting order.

I would prefer it myself if it had any currency, but in everyday life 
it's hardly used anywhere (except possibly in Sweden).

-- 
athel -- biochemist, not a physicist, but detector of crackpots