Re: Euro currency sign

On Oct 23,  1:45pm, Claus André Färber wrote:

> So what if I only spoke languages in which the month names are so
> distinct from the English ones that the character sequence "February"
> would have no meaning to me at all?

Then you wouldn't understand the rest of the text either, so you would
likely skip the entire document.

>If you want a date format which is
> understood by as many people as possible, you have to use "2004-02-03".


Which will, as stated before, be subject to different interpretations
by different people.


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Received on Friday, 24 October 1997 13:01:27 UTC