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[Paul Overell]

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In message <B83CD370.5CF%ade at lovett.com>, Ade Lovett <ade at lovett.com> 
writes
>On 12/12/2001 08:34, "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> wrote:
>

>>
>> (1) not everybody in the world intuitively knows what "CST" (or "IST", for
>> that matter) means, let alone "12/11/2001";
>
>Well, since both CNN and the BBC, along with other news networks, constantly
>refer to {Pacific,Mountain,Central,Eastern} {Daylight,Standard} Time, I
>think we can say that the denizens of this group can be expected to know
>what they mean.

I'm in the UK, I didn't know what CST was and had to look it up.  So I 
did a quick survey of my colleagues in the room (all Internet software 
developers) as to who knew what CST stood for and what the offset was.

Nobody knew.

>  As well as the 'standard US' date notation of mm/dd/yyyy.
>

This, however, is well known.


Regards
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Paul Overell                                             T U R N P I K E

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