[tz] What's your idea of a perfect date?

[Alan Mintz]

What I've seen in parts of Africa is DMY format with the month being in
Roman numerals (i.e., 11/X/2022 today), which avoids the ambiguity of M/D/Y
vs. D/M/Y.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 8:59 AM Fred Gleason via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:

> Even weirder (from a strictly parochial American POV) is a convention I’ve
> seen in German documents from the the early/mid-twentieth century (and
> perhaps today?), where the year would be expressed in Roman numerals. Thus:
> s/19-7-1932/19-7-XXXII/.
>
> Cheers!
>
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Alan Mintz <Alan.Mintz at gMail.com>
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