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Subject: [Shop-talk] OT- Excel help, (before I shoot my computer)!
From: neiljsherry at talktalk.net (Neil Sherry)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:35:06 +0000
References: <OFB4FE8BAB.201E4975-ON852579C2.000F4599-852579C2.000FB8A0@mail.megageek.com>
Ah - just set it to the 'UK' setting and be done! Start the campaign to 
change your fellow Americans...

 1. It's not just the UK - most of the rest of the world does it
    dd/mm/yyyy (certainly all of Europe)
 2. It's more logical (you wouldn't write the number 124 as twenty, one
    hundred and four?)
 3. I notice the US immigration authorities require dates to be written
    dd/mm/yyy

Neil
On 15/03/2012 02:44, eric at megageek.com wrote:
> The dates are being manually entered.  The problem is that with the format
> of dd/mm/yy, when the form is corrected, updated or modified, anyone will
> put it in in that format, and it will get reversed and the data will be
> compromised.

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