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Date format query

ReedRichards
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Date format query

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High-speed Broadband
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Estimated line speed:
5Mb (This may vary between 3Mb and 8Mb) - Checked on 2012-09-05 23:52:32
Current line speed:
8.5 Mb

Is this the standard Year-Month-Day date format?  My speed increased when I got ADSL2+ in July so the "estimated" line speed (and range of speeds) is closer to the correct values for 9th May 2012 than for 5th September.
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Oldjim
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Re: Date format query

It is and God knows where the numbers come from
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Estimated line speed:
    1.5Mb (Accurate to within +/- 1Mbit) - Checked on 2012-09-13 11:07:31
Current line speed:
    4.3 Mb
Just to add actual time is 11.03 on 13 Sept so they are time travellers as well unless someone doesn't use BST
JamesM
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Re: Date format query

NM
kmilburn
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Re: Date format query

From what I'm aware (and a quick check on wikipedia),  nobody with any modicum of sense does year-day-month.
And where computers are involved,  the existence of ISO 8601 should make it even more certain that it's year-month-day.
As for BT's timing, either they've got a time travel machine,  or it shows their level of competence in general, and at using simple features like NTP.    Shocked