Alternate Accounting Period for Reports

[David Carlson]

On 1/18/2015 7:14 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Wm <wm+gnc at tarrcity.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Has it occurred to you [not you, Derek], a person wanting specific days
>> in a month, that M/D/Y is just about the least intelligent way of
>> ordering a year number, a month number and a day number ?
>>
> While I might agree, and the ISO agrees with you and me as well (there are two ISO standards - day/month/year and year/month/day), it happens that pretty much the entire USA uses the Month-Day-Year format, probably because it translates directly from the way they prefer to say/write dates in words: January 18, 2015.   
>
> And getting the entire USA to switch that, would probably be harder than getting them to go metric.
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It would about as hard to get us to go metric as to get the Brits to
drive on the right side of the road.  ;)

David C