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"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:

> Why should international software _favor_ anything?  Japanese and
> Chinese will be rather pissed off that you call ISO 8601 "the"
> international standard.  The Oriental date format has been absolutely
> standard for a couple thousand years, AFAIK.

I thought ISO 8601 was widely supported by many Asian countries?

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