Mails not from me

Mark mhullrich at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 23:44:36 UTC 2010


On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Chris Jones
<christopher.rob.jones at cern.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Seriously? People actually use YYYYDDMM?
>
> yeah, Americans. Go figure...
>
I don't think so.  We're backwards, yeah (Mon DD, YYYY or
MM/DD/YY[YY]) but I've never seen one that inside out.

Yes, I am an American, born and raised here, first gen son of two
immigrants who escaped Germany in 1940-41 just before the war.  I like
to think I have some amount of culture from elsewhere....  :-)

Mark




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