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"Arthur W. Protin Jr." (GC-ACCURATE) <protin%PICA.ARMY.MIL@munnari.oz> writes:
> [regarding] conventions for time and date representations [as
> discussed by] John Hodges & Bob
> [...]
> [methods] I currently use for representing dates:
> [...]
> (2) as year followed by two digit number of month followed by
> two digit day of the month as in
> 900806 or 19900806
^^^^^^
WARNING: This method will break badly in just 10 years. Is 010202
01 February 2002, 01 February 1902, 02 February 2001 or 02 Febraury 1901?
YOU have a convention of yymmdd, but there is nothing which makes
that obviously better than ddmmyy. Which you are using is only obvious
in those years when yy>31.
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