Any chance you can depend on having century available? ... if so you might be able to impute the pattern.
I haven't thought about that much though. For instance how would you impute..
12112003
in Mexico that would be 11/12/2003 (mm/dd/yyyy)
in Seattle that would be 12/11/2003 (mm/dd/yyyy)
or what if the underlying pattern were mmyyyydd
01192001 --> 1/19/2001 or 1/1/1920
If you can't find some pattern or at lease some upper and lower bound for years that you can live within, it could get really tricky! Good luck!
Carole Shaw
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.