From pycyn@aol.com Mon May 08 11:18:38 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18013 invoked from network); 8 May 2000 18:18:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 8 May 2000 18:18:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo16.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.6) by mta3 with SMTP; 8 May 2000 18:18:37 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo16.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v26.7.) id a.9d.51af9fc (4316) for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:18:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <9d.51af9fc.26485ef6@aol.com> Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 14:18:30 EDT Subject: Re: Date format (Re: Lojban / Most translated Web Page) To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows sub 33 From: pycyn@aol.com 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.