<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 8:59 AM Fred Gleason via tz <<a href="mailto:tz@iana.org">tz@iana.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">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/.<div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">|---------------------------------------------------------------------|</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. |             Chief Developer             |</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">|                           |             Paravel Systems             |</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">|---------------------------------------------------------------------|</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">|  The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them   |</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">|  to choose from.                                                    |</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">|                                                                     |</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">|                                            -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum   |</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">|---------------------------------------------------------------------|</span></div></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Alan Mintz <Alan.Mintz@gMail.com><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>