On a trip to Europe, I saw a traveler enter the date on a traveler’s check using the American system (writing the month first, followed by the date and year) instead of the European convention of date first, then month, then year. Nobody would accept it!
The best practice is to write the date and then the name of the month (not a number) and then the year, since this is acceptable under any system.
MARK SEGAL
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