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Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 14:18:30 EDT
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In a message dated 5/8/00 3:51:37 AM CST, lalo@hackandroll.org writes:

<< There isn't really "most used first" for dates. If you're
 talking about the near future or past, you will probably use only the day or
 day/month; however, if you're talking about the distant future/past
 ("distant" as in from a few years on), you will probably use only the year
 or month/year. >>
I suppose that the supposition is that most of us most of the time talk 
mainly about near events.  Historians might like a different convention, but 
newsmen surely want this one.

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