>but I wasn't subscribed on 12/4/00

Well spotted Max, those dates get me all the time! So much so, that I've given up using pure numbers for dates - I use 12 April 2000, wherever possible these days.

I can cope with so many cross cultural differences but this one is a real pain in the ***, especially when buying airline tickets issued by American carriers - I always think that one day I'll turn up and my ticket will be wrong by months. Is there an international standard?

[ps - I've just checked and my United Airline issued tickets say - Date of issue: 11DEC00, so that probably is the international standard, ... unless tickets issued in the USA say DEC1100, ... no, probably not!]