Thanks for connecting us to the Kenya BC thread from last year. It’s quite possible that I read it then, but sadly didn’t remember it!
Interesting hypothesis also....
“Thanks for connecting us to the Kenya BC thread from last year. It’s quite possible that I read it then, but sadly didn’t remember it!”
Don’t feel bad. I didn’t remember writing anything in that comment until I pulled it up in a search!
Right after Smith revealed the CPGH BC I went onto Wiki searching for international date formats by country and found that Kenya used both formats with either the month or day going first and I posted the Wiki link on Smith’s Youtube.
An aggressive Obot named Mystlyplx (sp) immediately edited Wiki to REMOVE Kenya as one of two or three countries in the world that accept both date formats...and a battle between Wiki editors ensued.
Unfortunately for the Obots there was a color-coded map of countries that used the dual formats and they couldn’t edit that and has Kenya remained coded for dual date format use for years.
Here is the current link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
As of today, Kenya is shown as dual use (green) on the map and in the Kenya country detail, but Kenya does not show up in the color-code list of “green” countries.
I have speculated that the dual date format acceptance in Kenya may be due to the fact that Kenya was formed from the merger of two entities, Kenya Colony and Kenya Protectorate, each of which may have preserve its own format. Nairobi is in the longer term UK administered area Mombasa is in the Protectorate area.