DAMN! DAMN! DAMN! I was right the first time! That’s what I get for posting without coffee!
The thing is this: When the dates are written as I write them, i.e., 4-Mar-00 or 12-12-00 or 27-6-00, there is no confusion. They can each only be one date.
“I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry
Are you a turtle?
How do you like 01-01-01? or 01-01-01, spot the difference? No i didnt think so. How about 01-11-12?
My point is that now is really the time to get this straight. 
Johnny L.A. - why?
Why would anyone use such a system. I agree there can be no confusion about the date - I missed the point about using ‘mar’ instead of ‘03’. Seeing what I expected - not what was written.
But, still, why?
If we are to use ‘00’ for this year, then it shouldn’t matter where we put it in the date order - nothing else could be ‘00’
Take the 20th day of February 2000 as an example. We could write 00-01-20, 00-20-01, 01-00-20, 01-20-00, 20-00-01, 20-01-00.
There is no possibility of confusion about any of these six options, so I should be able to use any one of these forms, and switch to another layout for different dates.
But some might say that would be a stupid thing to do.
Russell
RussellM
I think you’re missing the point. I write the day of the month first. It’s just the way I do it. In order to avoid confusion by people who don’t know that I write the day first, I abbreviate the month if the day is less than 13. But in my personal matters, I know what I’m doing so I just use numbers. For example, my chequebook will have 1/4 for April 1st. No need to abbreviate the month because I have a convention and I stick to it.
“I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry
Are you a turtle?
Johnny L.A.
Of course it’s not illegal, but it may be illogical. The whole point is that I was wondering why you would willing choose to adopt two conventions rather than one.
If you would write 01-apr-00 (for public consumption), why don’t you also use 30-apr-00 ?
I don’t want to fall out over this, I just think it’s odd and I’m trying to understand why you do it.
Russell
Americans use month/day/year because they are perverse. Unfortunatly there are so many of them they think they are normal 