Paul Hill wrote: ] Assuming you meant that the reporter thought that ISO 8601 is the wrong ] direction, I would say this is consistent. The reporter is probably a word ] person. In European languages word order is left to right, so it makes sense ] that he would think that smallest to largest should be left to right and should ] be 'correct'. If he likes 8601, he is viewing a date as a numeric value. Let me get this straight. Are you saying that "10/2/99" (or "2/9/99" for US folks) is a "word"??? David, who wishes that the world would leave behind historical baggage, and standardise on ISO-8601 YYYY-MM-DD notation before the year 2000. __________________________________________________________________________ David Keegel <djk@cyber.com.au> URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/ Cybersource P/L: Unix Systems Administration and TCP/IP network management