If date format yyyy-mm-dd is  ISO 8601 standard, why not everybody use it for international clarity?
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same reason the U.S. won't change measuring systems. We like what we know. Someone once told me that the U.S. and Sri Lanka are the only countries that use our measuring system, yet it appears on nearly everything. As long as you coddle us and let us have our way we'll keep doing it.\n\nI'd never seen yyyy-mm-dd before. We use the mm/dd/yy system in the US and I'd seen dd/mm/yy in my Spanish classes (which was very confusing the first time I saw it because it was talking about october 11 which I read as november 10.)
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That's like asking why the US uses inches, feet, etc., instead of the metric system (which the rest of the world uses).  Basically, it's just because we're the US.  No reason.  But it's too much of a hassle to change, apparently, on both counts.
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static Q96 Info = {"Dec", 18, 97.8};\n\nassuming\ntypedef struct _stuff_\n{\nchar *Month;\nint Day;\nfloat Temp;\n} Q96;
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Not worth thinking or worrying about.  It is just a rather neat date - same as 3/3/03 was and 7/7/07 will be.
538013
it is the International Date Line
547784
if that is a holiday, i've never heard of it. i suppose all of us in the western world would should speak latin that day. in the east, chinese we be the most appropriate language
901264
There was a reason to worry.    Here's why.\n\nMost computer programs were coded with 2 digits for the year, not 4.   When date logic or math was done with 2 dates, the result would've been incorrect if there was one date after 2000 and one date before 2000.    \n\nThe best example is an age calculation - what would've been the age of someone on 01/01/00 that was born on 01/01/99?\n\nMost people would say 1 year old, but look at it again.   What do you get if you subract 99 from 00?     That's a negative number.\nThe other thing is that the person could've been born in 1899 and actually be 101 years old.   You can't tell by the date alone, which century it comes from.   \n\nAnother thing to worry about was leap year.    1900 was not a leap year, but 2000 was.    \n\nSome computer programs are very dependent on the date to determine what happens in the program.   Using the same dates, which is greater 01/01/99 or 01/01/00...   99 is greater than 00, but it should be the other way around - 2000 is greater than 1999.\n\nBesides the more commonly known version of the date of month/day/year (mm/dd/yy), there is a version that's called a julian date which is year and day of year (yyddd).   All of this logic had to be changed and tested too to make sure it worked the way it was supposed to. \n\nThe solution to the problem was to include the other 2 digits of the year in all date logic.    It seems simple, but there's dates for everything.  Just look at any bill.  You have birth dates, payment due dates, billing dates, transaction dates, start dates, end dates, delivery dates, policy dates, fiscal dates, tax related dates, etc.    The logic for each one had to be analyzed, changed and tested in all different combinations of business scenarios.\n\nThere would've been problems if nothing was done about it, but I don't know what they may have been.   I'm not sure if we'd have the level of catastrophe they were talking about though.
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<The 24-hour clock is a convention of time-keeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours, numbered from 0 to 23 (and 24 in the day-ending midnight). This system is the most commonly used time notation in the world of today. The United States is the only industrialized country left in which a substantial fraction of the population is not yet accustomed to it. The 24-hour notation is in the US and Canada also referred to as military time, and (now only rarely) in the United Kingdom as continental time. It is also the international standard notation of time (ISO 8601).\n\n<Description\nA time in the 24-hour notation is written in the form hours:minutes (for example, 01:23), or hours:minutes:seconds (01:23:45). A leading zero is added for numbers under 10. This zero is optional for the hours, but very commonly used, especially in computer applications, where many specifications require it (for example, ISO 8601). Where subsecond resolution is required, the seconds can be a decimal fraction, that is the fractional part follows a decimal dot or comma, as in 01:23:45.678. In the 24-hour time notation, the day begins at midnight, 00:00, and the last minute of the day is that beginning at 23:59 and ending at 24:00. The time 24:00 of the current day is identical to 00:00 of the following day. Digital clocks run from 00:00 to 23:59, that is they never show 24:00 on their display. This way, the roll-over from 23:59:59.999 to 00:00:00.000 coincides with the start of a new day and date. However, the notation 24:00 is useful for referring to the exact end of a day in a time interval.\n\n24-hour clock 12-hour clock \n00:00 12:00 midnight \n01:00 1:00 am \n02:00 2:00 am \n03:00 3:00 am \n04:00 4:00 am \n05:00 5:00 am \n06:00 6:00 am \n07:00 7:00 am \n08:00 8:00 am \n09:00 9:00 am \n10:00 10:00 am \n11:00 11:00 am \n12:00 12:00 noon \n13:00 1:00 pm \n14:00 2:00 pm \n15:00 3:00 pm \n16:00 4:00 pm \n17:00 5:00 pm \n18:00 6:00 pm \n19:00 7:00 pm \n20:00 8:00 pm \n21:00 9:00 pm \n22:00 10:00 pm \n23:00 11:00 pm \n24:00 12:00 midnight
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It's a date format for 2 digit month, 2 digit day and 4 digit year.  Today, February 20, 2006, would be coded as 02/20/2006.  This is a common US format.  In some parts of the world, it is more common to use DD/MM/YYYY, with the 2 digit day before the 2 digit month.
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Most of the non-English speaking world puts Day/Month/Year. Most of the English speaking world puts Month/Day/Year.\n\nNo big deal.
221957
It has always seemed odd to me to have daylight savings time in the summer when the days are already naturally longer.  It is logical to me to at least try using it in the winter or not at all.
3273
The year's date reads the same when turned upside down. That will not happen again until 6009.\n\nThough thats only if you write it.  You can print out this page and turn it upside down and you'll end up with l96l
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International Dateline\n\nGood luck with your homework.
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Since no one can understand this jumbed question I wil just answer another one:\n\nQ: "What is the international date line and why is it where it is?"\n\nA: "Learn how to type you jack@ss."
328127
depend on which country, china has been civilised for a super long time than america, so you cant say the "true" mm/dd/yy, until you know where ya are
1156689
I think it's June 6th, 2006.  Nothing more.  Kinda like Jan. 1, 2000 was.  Our dates and any number associated with them are pretty much arbitrary.
808339
if the millenium bug was a set up, obviously Microsoft would profit from it since it was rumored to be an intentional "glitch" in their operating systems for following date formats of mm/dd/yy instead of mm/dd/yyyy. the millenium bug fix became an auto update feature for Windows 98 up. Windows 95 and earlier operationg systems required their users to download the patch manually.