Re: CDate() different value in VB6 and SQL 2005

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The way I figure it, when the US first got out from under the thumb of England, I believe there was a very anti-British attitude at the time. This led to things like changing spelling, just to show how not-British they were, and they probably did the same thing with dates. They didn't change the order because it made sense, they changed it because it wasn't what the Brits used. The wording probably just followed from that.

That's entirely speculation, with a smidgen of historical knowledge thrown in, but it sounds good to me. :)


Rob

Stefan Berglund wrote:
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:13:11 -0000, "Mike Williams"
<mikea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
in <Ov5qFRzcIHA.2268@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

"Jeff Johnson" <i.get@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:13rm98ehofqu791@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

So tell me, in England, when you speak the date, do you actually
say (on a REGULAR basis) "Today is nineteenth February,
two thousand eight"? . . . Or do you say it like virtually everyone
in America: "Today is February nineteenth, two thousand eight"? Because if you say it like the last one, why don't you WRITE it
like the last one?
We don't WRITE it like the last one because we don't SAY it like the last one. We say "Nineteenth of February Two Thousand and Eight" :-)

All that wasted breath. Seems it would be more compact, more economical
to simply say "February Nineteenth, Two Thousand Eight".

Reticence is a virtue.

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