[SpamCop-List] Re: spam is NOT 10 days old to me - got it this a.m.

[Mike Easter]

Steven Maesslein wrote:
> jg

>> SpamCop tells me this spam is from 12/7,

> That looks more like just over 5 months to me!

'People' including the US and EU countries, shouldn't use dates in
ambiguous formats.

Ideally, dates would be written in ISO 8601 format, and abbreviated
dates would be written in abbreviated ISO 8601 formats.

Under those circumstances, 12/7 wouldn't be appropriate for either
December 7 or July 12, using English language for the dates, and 7/12
also wouldn't be appropriate for whatever language you wanted to say
July 12 or December 7 in either.

It is one thing to have some language incompatibilities, it is quite
another to have date format incompatibilities.

BTW, I am US, and my 'favorite' calendar which is sitting on my desk has
the days of the week starting with Monday, and the weeks of the year
starting in ISO 8601 style.  The next new year's week 1 will start Mon
Jan 2.


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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin