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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by fnbr on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:21AM (#24071720)
Unfortunately, this isn’t true in Canada. MDY is very common, especially in the English parts. See:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by FabHK on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:47AM (#24072007)
MDY separated by dots? The link you gave does not seem to support that.
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