RE: SQL Newbie Question about Dates

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon says:

> Take your choice--although I doubt you'll get yyyy/mm/dd accepted
> because that's a dumb (and unsupported) format. You can get mm/dd/yyyy
> to work but that's also a dumb format--it just happens to be a
> supported one.

... and you would argue that dd.mm.yyyy makes more sense, Simon?  Actually,
I know you would; I've seen your postings that say so.  Pray, will you
please sell us "dumb" Americans (or at least this one) on the virtues of
that format?  While I agree to a point that mm/dd/yyyy doesn't make much
sense I don't get how dd/mm/yyyy does.

Dennis Lovelady
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