[Shop-talk] OT- Excel help, (before I shoot my computer)!

[Steven Trovato]

I've heard the complaint that 9/11 is America's way of pushing MM/DD 
on the rest of the world.  Not the actual event, obviously.  Rather, 
the fact that it is referred to as "9/11" rather than "11/9"!

-Steve Trovato
strovato at optonline.net

At 04:35 AM 3/15/2012, Neil Sherry wrote:
>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