[Seizethecarp]

“In England, and English colonies and commonwealths, they typically date things: dd/mm/yyyy.”

True, but on a hunch, when this was first released, I may have been the first person to find on the Wiki international date format page that Kenya is one of the few countries in the world that was listed as regularly using BOTH formats.

The original source data (from memory) came from IBM software manuals that were used to set up computer software formats by country around the world.

An Obot named Mystylplx immediately edited the Wiki page, but was reversed and locked for a time, but now all specific references to Kenya using two formats have disappeared from the text of the page except for the world map, which may have been harder for the Obot scrubbers to edit.

Kenya is still color-coded purple on the world map as a dual format country at this site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country

There is a ready explanation for two formats in the fact that Kenya, when founded, was formed by the merger of two separate legal entities, Kenya Colony and Coast Province, which may well have used two different formats in their separate clerical cultures.

[parsifal]

Great link! Fascinating. Thank you. It also had time and I had no idea whether Kenya was 24 hour or not. Couldn’t tell. Well I jumped out there!

parsy, who isn’t afraid to plop.

[parsifal]

Hey, you seem nice! Uh , er uh...if you see anybody around who looks like a Chicomm Secret Agent, like uh er ....RUN!

parsy, who did a bad bad thing

[Fred Nerks]

Thanks, very valuable info, I knew I had read that before but didn’t mention it because I didn’t keep the source link.

Reminds me of the point I made several times about the phonetic spelling of names, common to swahili and arabic.

Now the ‘Kenya forgery’ looks a little more kosher, doesn’t it? The objections that Helton Mangana is written as ‘Heltan’ is due to the phonetics, and the date ‘anomaly’ is due to the double format.

Interesting previous comment:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2342344/posts?page=24#24

[butterdezillion]

Very interesting. Sort of improbable that a forger would use the more suspicious date format if he was trying to pass the forgery off without raising suspicions.

[little jeremiah]

BTTT and I remember that whole discussion and the final outcome, which meant that date format alone certainly did not impeach that document. I think the document could be real; whereas the internet image of the COLB cannot be rea.

[little jeremiah]

Oops - cannot be reaL.

[Danae]

Has anyone told you today that you are BRILLIANT!? Because you are!

[bgill]

the Wiki international date format page that Kenya is one of the few countries in the world that was listed as regularly using BOTH formats.

You are correct. I remember seeing it, too. Possibly referenced on the long thread?