On Dec 2, 2007 1:56 PM, Brian Mury <brianmury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 19:49 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > He (Davis S Wiener) was supposed to return > > to the office 12/06/2007. I wonder if he's back. > > I doubt it - that's in the future. Different parts of the world have > different conventions for the order of the day and month. 12/06/2007 may > mean 12 June to you, but it means 6 December to the OP. Come to the USA, and you'll find that they don't just use MM-DD-YY. Some parts of the government use DD-MM-YY. Perhaps it was the "government" part that explains the anomaly.