On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:28:56PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: > Historical dates, for example: when did Douglas Adams die? A: > 2001-05-11. You can even strip of irrelevant parts: 2001-05 if you don't I think his point was that a lot more people know that Dogulas Adams died in 2001 than that he died in May. As I said in another post, year-first is good for computers, bad for person to person communication.