And it came to pass that Martin Fritsche wrote:
> Christopher Jahn wrote:
>
>> Because that's some weird ass non-standard date format.
>> This side of the pond uses mmddyyyy.
>> ;-)
>
> What's more weird?
> small unit - medium unit - large unit or
> medium unit - small unit - large unit?
>:-�
>
When we were a frontier society, folks coming in fromt he
wilderness would lose track of time: knowing the DAY of the
month was not as critical as knowing the MONTH, and thus
learning how close spring/winter really is.
A fur trapper may walk into a saloon after months in the woods,
and ask the date.
"It's September, stranger. The 23rd, to be exact" he might be
told. "A Saturday."
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
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