>...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[snip]
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>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.

Yes, I believe it is very common in European countries. Even now I occasionally write dates this way.