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Post by mailartist on Jan 7, 2020 15:50:09 GMT
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Post by Mia on Jan 7, 2020 21:28:32 GMT
Last year, I occasionally wrote '19 for the year in letters. But yes, good point on writing 2020. Also, with penpalling being a global hobby, it may be a good idea to write the month out in full (or short form).
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Post by radellaf on Jan 7, 2020 23:13:57 GMT
This was a big deal at a pharma company I worked for to the point they spent like 10 min in a training class about it. Didn't mention adding digits, just cross-culture unambiguity? There were a couple of forms allowed but I liked 06 Jan 2020, though my US date stamper is JAN 06 2020. I'd prefer all numbers but there's just no way to be unambiguous about month and day if the day is <13. Constant pain with filenames I get from others, often with three pairs of numbers. Before Y2K, not so bad, but now like 40% of them can be read several different ways. YYDDMM, YYMMDD, DDMMYY, and MMDDYY. For the tech nerd, I consider names starting with DDMMYYYY best, as it alphabetically sorts in date order and I don't think anybody does MMDDYYYY with no dashes or slashes. Anyway, it's a royal pain that there's no one (or a few) ways to do it. I grew up with month before day so it seems natural, but IDK where it came from historically since it seems completely illogical. Jan 1 or "the 1st of Jan" are OK but not "one Jan". Humans. Grumble.
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Post by mailartist on Jan 8, 2020 0:11:47 GMT
The good news is that this is likely the only year in our lifetime that we'll have to worry about this. I doubt any of us will still be around in 2121!
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