Re: IBM dates

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 7:45 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The name seems to be of
Chinese descent so I thought it might have something to do with Chinese
dates. Although I'm culturally ignorant of their dates I do seem to
recall they have a different date system.

Every vaguely modern country which is a participant in international
commerce or international scientific/academic endeavors uses ISO, or
some rearrangement thereof (e.g. M/D/Y vs. D-M-Y, etc., where any
differences come down to formatting, not math). Especially when
engaging internationally. Where there are local alternative date
systems (for "internal" use), they won't be "eleven years (and
change)" off. And they wouldn't bother translating to the English
month name if they didn't also recalculate the day and year number as
needed.

John Y.