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On 3 Jul 2025 at 19:00:15, "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> Diogo Jota and his brother Silva were killed Thursday 7/3/2025 just past
> midnight in a single-car accident near Zomora, Spain. Police haven't said
> who was driving.

They died 3/7/2025

>
> Diogo played for Liverpool, which just won the Premiere League title.
> Weeks earlier, he had gotten married. He had three children.
>
> Silva played soccer in Portugal.
>
> https://apnews.com/article/diogo-jota-liverpool-d7df70a74100e52ee28aa2810d6673d0
> .

Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> wrote:
>3 Jul 2025 at 19:00:15, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>>Diogo Jota and his brother Silva were killed Thursday 7/3/2025 . . .

>They died 3/7/2025

Fuck/go/yourself

On 4 Jul 2025 at 04:40:29, "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> wrote:
>>3 Jul 2025 at 19:00:15, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
>>>Diogo Jota and his brother Silva were killed Thursday 7/3/2025 . . .
>
>>They died 3/7/2025
>
> Fuck/go/yourself

Nice.

They were killed in Portugal, lived in Britain and this is an
international news-group.
The illogical US date format has no relevance.

In article <mcpvs2FckbnU1@mid.individual.net>,
Bob Martin  <bob.martin@excite.com> wrote:
>On 4 Jul 2025 at 04:40:29, "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>> Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> wrote:
>>>3 Jul 2025 at 19:00:15, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>Diogo Jota and his brother Silva were killed Thursday 7/3/2025 . . .
>>
>>>They died 3/7/2025
>>
>> Fuck/go/yourself
>
>Nice.
>
>They were killed in Portugal, lived in Britain and this is an
>international news-group.
>The illogical US date format has no relevance.

GNU "date" says otherwise.  It understands x/y/z to always mean
month/day/year (*).  If you want to be universally correct, use the ISO
format (2025-07-03), which has many advantages over any other format.

Sorry, but the gods have spoken.

To re-iterate, 3/7/2025 means March 7th.

(*) Check out "info date" for the skinny.

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A. It says they died on a THURSDAY.
July 3, 2025 was a Thurs, but March 7 was a Friday.

B. This story was all over the news and sports yesterday and today, with
mention of upcoming funeral. Not a 3 month old news story.

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In article <be060c3d776989de9f3053dcf6648b2c@www.novabbs.com>,
Jason <jsnsmith565@gmail.com> wrote:
>A. It says they died on a THURSDAY.
>July 3, 2025 was a Thurs, but March 7 was a Friday.
>
>B. This story was all over the news and sports yesterday and today, with
>mention of upcoming funeral. Not a 3 month old news story.

To a first reading, it looks like Bob was contesting the facts, and arguing
that the deaths did, indeed, occur 3 months ago.  That was also my take,
until I realized that wasn't his intent.  Rather, he was just nitpicking
the date notation - arguing that July 3 should be written 3/7 rather than 7/3.

See my previous response for why he is wrong about this.

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On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 16:11:58 +0000, Kenny McCormack wrote:

> In article <be060c3d776989de9f3053dcf6648b2c@www.novabbs.com>,
> Jason <jsnsmith565@gmail.com> wrote:
>>A. It says they died on a THURSDAY.
>>July 3, 2025 was a Thurs, but March 7 was a Friday.
>>
>>B. This story was all over the news and sports yesterday and today, with
>>mention of upcoming funeral. Not a 3 month old news story.
>
> To a first reading, it looks like Bob was contesting the facts, and
> arguing
> that the deaths did, indeed, occur 3 months ago.  That was also my take,
> until I realized that wasn't his intent.  Rather, he was just nitpicking
> the date notation - arguing that July 3 should be written 3/7 rather
> than 7/3.
>
> See my previous response for why he is wrong about this.


Thanks for the clarification, Kenny.

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Jason <jsnsmith565@gmail.com> wrote:
>Fri, 4 Jul 2025 16:11:58 +0000, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>>Jason <jsnsmith565@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>A. It says they died on a THURSDAY.
>>>July 3, 2025 was a Thurs, but March 7 was a Friday.

>>>B. This story was all over the news and sports yesterday and today, with
>>>mention of upcoming funeral. Not a 3 month old news story.

>>To a first reading, it looks like Bob was contesting the facts, and
>>arguing that the deaths did, indeed, occur 3 months ago.  That was also
>>my take, until I realized that wasn't his intent.  Rather, he was just
>>nitpicking the date notation - arguing that July 3 should be written
>>3/7 rather than 7/3.

>>See my previous response for why he is wrong about this.

>Thanks for the clarification, Kenny.

For what it's worth, I found six articles from bob.martin@excite.com,
four of which were pedantic complaints about how the regulars on this
group posted. The other two articles weren't off topic but barely above
noise.

I do not see that he's ever posted an obituary.

Clearly, his main contribution to Usenet is trolling. If readers kill
filed him, they'd be missing nothing of interest.