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"Dr J R Stockton" <reply0945@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:Vyslo1P9mG8KFwSy@newsgroupDr. J., I am surprised, and even a bit shocked, to see you being almost an
apologist for a practice that has no particular justification ;-)

We relied on a similar trick in the previous century, during most of which
the two digit year would invariably be greater than the largest possible day
of month number. You may recall the name of the phenomenon that occurred
when it finally dawned on us that we were, effectively, planning our own
obsolescence. Kind of like my mother in law who back in the 1990's had a
tombstone sculpted for herself with the first two digits of the date of
death being pre-carved as "19". A common, and even practical, practice
earlier in the century. Apparently the few who were born in the 1890's and
who lived into the 21st century thought better of the idea and left the
slate completely blank as long as they could.

/Al

In microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript message <#F#E5xQXKHA.4688@newsgroup
NGP06.phx.gbl>, Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:05:48, Al Dunbar
<alandrub@newsgroup> posted:
Attribute it to a lack of understanding on your own part.

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I must accept your castigation for not having done my homework properly.
The year in ISO format should indeed have 4 digits. Unfortunately, although the correct seperator is a colon, windows does not allow this in file names!

In microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript message <a770c07dcdb529f6d921d8db
0eb9a1ce@newsgroup-gateway.com>, Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:12:59, tonyb
<guest@newsgroup-email.com> posted:The correct time separator is a colon.

You can use - between the date fields and _ between the time fields.

Probably better to use the compact ISO date and time forms YYYYMMDD and
hhmmss, and to put a minus between them - 20091107-181247etc.etc .

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"Dr J R Stockton" <reply0945@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:28VN7Tsb8g8KFw32@newsgroupMy apologies, however, it was more a lack of interpretation on my part than
understanding. To me it's not the value of digits in the year that indicate
the YMD order, but the fact that there are more than two of them, plus the
fact that YDM is the least likely order possible.

/Al