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Re: proper use of labels

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From: Terrence Wood
Date: Jun 16, 2005 1:31PM

On 16 Jun 2005, at 10:36 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> No, it isn't, since the required data format is neither natural to most
> people nor standards-conforming. It strongly violates the international
> standard ISO 8601, which prescribes that dd-mm-yy is to be interpreted
> so
> that dd denotes year, mm denotes month, and yy denotes day.

The date format is perfectly natural if you are a New Zealander. The
real give away that this is an *example* is the input asks for todays
date... now what designer/developer in their right mind would expect a
user to input that when it is the simplest thing to work out
programmatically? =)

regards
Terrence Wood.