We tend to write or think about things in one of two ways....either
ingrained habit, or the order in which they are most significant to
OURSELVES.

Dates are habits learned from our cultural environment, the same as accents,
vocabulary, etc. 

Names and addresses , to us, start with names. To the post office, the
significance starts at the opposite end, and the name is almost irrelevant
for their purpose - once they have house, apartment or post box, its over
for them. 

BTW, I once visited US and wanted to hire a car. As I passed over my Licence
I  groaned as I saw it was expired (this was February, it had expired 12th
January), but it was interpreted as December 1, so I got my car....you win
some, you lose some.

jp



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-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Denys Beauchemin
Sent: Thursday, 6 April 2006 1:05 PM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Once in a lifetime event..

Walter wrote:
"I've been writing dates using ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD) since 
about 1995.  Writing a date with the year last would feel as unnatural 
as writing a phone number with the area code last!

Walter"


To which I reply:

Or writing your mailing address starting with name, street, city, 
state and Zip. You're right, it would be much better to start with 
Zip, state, city, street and then name.

Analogies are so much fun.

Denys.

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