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Subject:Re: Date and Time From:"David M. Brown" <dmbrown -at- BROWN-INC -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:47:56 -0700
Mr. Feeman wrote:
>
> ... MM/DD/YYYY and HH:MM:SS. Do I
> need to give an example of a date and a time or do people out of the
> military know what these formats are without examples?
Nothing in the format specifies whether the program requires 12-hour or
24-hour (a.k.a. "military") encoding of the time. Similarly, it's not
clear whether the month and day *must* or *may* include two digits.
I think most English-speaking readers will understand the required order
of fields from the format. But an example of the required contents
would be more helpful:
4:05 p.m., Feb. 7, 98 ==> 02/07/1998 16:05:00
This example alone doesn't clear up *all* the questions (specifically
"must vs. may"), but it's a start.
--David
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