Search the Internet to find information about date formats. Determine whether the date format used in the United States is the most common format.

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When they search the Internet, students will learn more about the four data storage formats, EBCDIC, ASCII, Unicode, and binary, which are described in Section 9.10.3. With regard to date fields, students might mention the model established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which requires a format of four digits for the year, two for the month, and two for the day (YYYYMMDD).
Also, as the SoccerMom Case In Point 9.4 suggests, the United States has many trading partners who use different methods of formatting dates. In all likelihood, the U.S. is in a minority. Two trends have emerged, however: multinational U.S. firms can and do use different formats for international transactions, and many foreign firms with U.S. import and export customers make modifications in the interest of consistency. Finally, point out to students that multinational language and format support is built into many software applications.

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