<div style="font-size: 12pt;">In Canada, the official method for today is 11/10/2022, except if you are a programmer, or from Quebec, where 2022-10-11 (ISO style) is more common. <br><br>But I sometimes get cheques (checks) from the USA which for today would be 10/11/2022. So here at least, we see cheques with all 3 formats. Most Canadians no longer use cheques - now I see why.<br><br>US chains (Walmart) often print their receipts in the US format, but Canadian businesses generally use Canadian or ISO format. Its a huge headache if you have a small business and count your pennies on your receipts at tax time - especially if your corp year end is not Dec 31st. 'Was this receipt for last tax year or this tax year'. <br><br>I personally convinced Ottawa International Airport to convert their displays to ISO format. Their original display software was setup with the USA format.<br><br><br><strong>----- Original Message -----</strong><br> <strong>From:</strong> Fred Gleason via tz [<a href="mailto:tz@iana.org" target='_blank'>mailto:tz@iana.org]</a><br> <strong>To:</strong> "Tz Database IANA" <tz@iana.org><br> <strong>Sent:</strong> Tue, 11 Oct 2022 11:59:10 -0400<br> <strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [tz] What's your idea of a perfect date?<br><br></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt;">On Oct 11, 2022, at 11:40, Brooks Harris via tz <<a href="mailto:tz@iana.org" target='_blank'>tz@iana.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">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. :-)</span></div>
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<div>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>
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