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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp>
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Subject: Re: REAL ports freeze on Sunday night
To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 16:40:26 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970306211217.23532F-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> from "Daniel O'Callaghan" at Mar 6, 97 09:14:35 pm
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Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Thomas Gellekum wrote:
> 
> > Satoshi Asami wrote:
> > > Ok.  We're getting closer and closer.  The (hopefully) last ports
> > > freeze will be on 3/12, midnight PST (just before it turns Monday).
> >                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > Finally a date format even I can understand. :-)
> 
> I know what you mean.  It would be nice if people used either 12th March, 
> or 970312.  3/12 means 3rd of December to most of the world :-)

Especially since March 12th is a Wednesday, and not a Monday :-).
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@FreeBSD.org
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