Thread: Telling time in U. K. English
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Old 07-12-2011, 02:12 PM   #78
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Originally Posted by wodin View Post
Government forms are incresingly going to the date format of 20010911 for September eleventh, 2001.

Blame it on computers, the numerical equivilent of yyyymmdd sorts much easier than any other format, except of course "Julian dates". But then if we used Julian dates, only computers would know what day it is.
US Military supply, and Communications fields used Julian dates during my tours. You could always keep a young Comm Tech around to ask. (I think they even have more attractive curvy ones now)
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