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

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Fred Gleason wrote in
 <E2CB130B-4024-4213-82D9-CA9FEDE555D6 at paravelsystems.com>:
 |On Oct 11, 2022, at 11:40, Brooks Harris via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:
 |> I once had a check from a UK client (wait, I guess it must have been \
 |> a cheque?) with a date like "19-7-2015". My American bank would not \
 |> accept it because the date made no sense to them. It took phone calls \
 |> and a visit to the bank to sort it out. :-)
 |
 |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/.

On Monuments and such, royal names, you surely would find this
even today.  King Charles III. seems a very fresh incarnation of
this historism.  On daily and popular likely not, for example
i have a cookbook from 1844 by Henriette Davidis, she does not.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)