Fred Gleason wrote in <E2CB130B-4024-4213-82D9-CA9FEDE555D6@paravelsystems.com>: |On Oct 11, 2022, at 11:40, Brooks Harris via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote: |> I once had a check from a UK client (wait, I guess it must have been \ |> a cheque?) with a date like "19-7-2015". My American bank would not \ |> accept it because the date made no sense to them. It took phone calls \ |> and a visit to the bank to sort it out. :-) | |Even weirder (from a strictly parochial American POV) is a convention \ |I’ve seen in German documents from the the early/mid-twentieth century \ |(and perhaps today?), where the year would be expressed in Roman numerals. \ |Thus: s/19-7-1932/19-7-XXXII/. On Monuments and such, royal names, you surely would find this even today. King Charles III. seems a very fresh incarnation of this historism. On daily and popular likely not, for example i have a cookbook from 1844 by Henriette Davidis, she does not. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)