...and I was so quick to notice it after using Fox for thirteen years. Just last evening I remembered what was the standard date format back home, before we had computers: it was dd-RRRR-yyyy, where RRRR stands for the uppercase Roman numeral for the month. Thus, today's date format would be 21-III-2002. It was in use everywhere; in schools, the orderly had a duty to sweep the blackboard and write the date in this format in top right corner. Even the state crest had its foundation date (29-XI-1943) on it, and it was actually visible on every coin.

I know I can write my own method to display the dates in this format if I really want to; the reason I'm writing this is to learn whether any other country has had such a date format before the computers.