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Old May 30, 2024 | 10:36 am
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Originally Posted by camdentown
In another thread, it's been suggested that the UK/US date formats are the issue. AA uses MM/DD/YYYY. BA uses DD/MM/YYYY. You could try each format according to which airline is operating each sector.
Reservation systems always use DDMMMYY so that the EDIFACT data is sent in a standard format. Can't mistranslate 30MAY24 (Y2K aside...)
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