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Subject:Re: Date format From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> To:techwr-l digest recipients <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:42:44 -0700
Jeff Hanvey <jewahe -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> When we provide instructions for date format, we
> want to say something like
> "mm/dd/yyyy".
> Would you use upper or lower case?
Linux commands uses upper case, so that MM = month, and mm =
minutes.
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