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From: "Jean-Paul leburton" <>
Subject: RE: [BEL-R] PIERRE ETIENNE DATE FORMAT
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:58:07 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20030216.123547.-459713.29.TAMETN@juno.com>


Please remember that the date format used here in "Old Europe" is
day-month-year
and not month-day-yearspecifying can lead to terrible misunderstanding
especially in large cities

I remember I made this misunderstanding with an US contact who wrote the
date
in month-day-year format. I had to do a search in Liege where there were
more than 3000 births / year....


My suggestion would be the month in letters .....

-----Original Message-----
From: Tammy L Etienne [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 6:55 PM
To:
Subject: [BEL-R] PIERRE ETIENNE DATE FORMAT


To all,
Sorry about not putting my date format in my querry about Pierre Etienne
and Francoise Bertrand. It was brought to my attention via Jean Paul
(thank you for pointing that out). My date format is month-day-year.
ie...6-10-1810 = June,10,1810.
Sorry again to all,fingers were typing faster than my brain was
thinking. :o)
Tammy Etienne
Luxemburg,Wiscosnin




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