iii. Describe an external representation of the date so that any sending process may convert a date of its local representation to the external representation prior to sending, and any receiving process may convert the date received from this representation to its native representation.

Process A sends to process B a single data item, a date. Process A uses the American date format: // (for example: 01/31/2001. Process B uses the European date format: //(for example:31/01/2001.)

An example of such a representation is ,, (for example, 2001, 12, 31).

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