[Ads-l] Date templates for the 21st century

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Thanks for the responses. The Wikipedia entry for Cheque displays some
pictures of checks from the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque

A check for the Whitney National Bank of New Orleans, Louisiana has
"190" printed in the date field. The number 5 is written in to yield
the year 1905.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque#/media/File:Whitney_Bank_New_Orleans_Check_1905.jpg

A check for the Standard Bank of South Africa Limited has "193"
printed in the date field with the number 3 written in to yield 1933.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque#/media/File:1933_South_African_cheque.jpg

So there was more variation in preprinted numbers then I imagined. It
is difficult to make any conclusions from this kind of fragmentary
data.

Garson
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 7:30 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > For example, In the past my personal checks had 19 in the year slot,
> > but nowadays they do not have 20.
>
> Same here: "Date________________" only
>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 5:55 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Last century I recall manually filling in forms containing slots that
> > were used to specify the year. Often the two digits 19 appeared in
> > these year slots. It was only necessary to specify the remaining two
> > digits for the year. In the current century I have not encountered
> > many forms with 20 written in the year slot.
> >
> > For example, In the past my personal checks had 19 in the year slot,
> > but nowadays they do not have 20.
> >
> > Have others observed this difference?
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