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Old 08-15-2023, 07:27 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
How many newspapers use ISO date in their dateline. The only ones I'm familiar with are Chinese language publications; e.g the Peoples Daily (e.g. 2023年08月16日00:37), the English language edition (Xinhua) uses Month (in full), Day, Year (e.g. 16:14, August 15, 2023).

It's a de-facto standard set by the payment card industry, incorporated into law in some jurisdictions.

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Some of that is Legacy from before the days of electronic payment terminals world wide. Remember knuckle buster slips?

By the time someone went , there were millions of payment terminals with embedded code that did a pre-check (the card was a valid type 3x Amex, 4x visa, 5x MC, 6011 Discover and it passed checksum, the date was good (the dial-up connection fees were pricey (my break even was a $5 sale and you are not allowed a service fee or minimum) , worse for users using early cell access).
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