Poll: How do you write the date?
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As the person above you said, it's more relevant in discussions (which might just be me, but seems like referring to casual day-to-day discussion rather than archives dating...). Also I ask other people the date all the time and get it all the time as well.Kenko said:
F. ex. going to a concert, got the tickets, they say 25th October, talking to a mate, one might ask the other what day it is to figure out in how many days that is.
I get it if you keep track of the current date all the time though. Lots of people don't however (myself very much included), that's what I (and I assume RAK) meant. No hostility intended tho btw... just seemed a fun joke that sorta demonstrated my point :>
Only Americans really do that.Korten12 said:
Day / Month / Year makes more sense obviously.
However I will add that if you are alphabetically ordering some files that are only labeled as dates that the American style of dates sorts them properly.
"the origins lie in how the date was written in full. the english would write the 5th of december 2010 which results in 05-12-2010 and Americans would write December the 5th 2010 which results in 12-05-2010
p.s. we all know the only logical way to write down dates is the scandinavian notation. they write YYYY MM DD which can then be superceded by HH:MM:SS. this works very well in computing as it alowers for easier alphabetisation
2010/12/05-12:51:33"
Day/Month/Year
I know everyone has the right to write the date how they want, but still, i quite often get confused when i see dates that have month in front.
Someone did an example here like mine: when i heard "9/11", i thought "the 9th of November".
I know everyone has the right to write the date how they want, but still, i quite often get confused when i see dates that have month in front.
Someone did an example here like mine: when i heard "9/11", i thought "the 9th of November".
Day/Month/Year
August last year, when I was in New York, I had to convince a bouncer that I was 21 since my ID read 10/05/1988. Its the 10th of May not the 5th of October, forunately there was another date on my ID which confimed this (28 months in a year?).
August last year, when I was in New York, I had to convince a bouncer that I was 21 since my ID read 10/05/1988. Its the 10th of May not the 5th of October, forunately there was another date on my ID which confimed this (28 months in a year?).
Because they have this tendency to be special about everything.N1ceDreamz said:
Note that these may be woefully inaccurate since they were found via a quick Google search, but they do a nice job of illustrating my point.
OT: We use DD/MM/YYYY format.
M/D/Y So I guess that makes me insane, unreasonable, and an idiot. Thanks Escapist posters. =P
It's too late for me to change it now, after twenty-two years of being told that I should write it M/D/Y. Especially since every form and 99% of all paperwork over here requires the understood M/D/Y. I can't just start changing it willy-nilly and writing down a better more reasonable order that no one will understand unless it's explained to them. So unless there is a huge , every-American-gets-the-memo, date-writing-change - I guess I'm staying at M/D/Y.
*RASPBERRY*
It's too late for me to change it now, after twenty-two years of being told that I should write it M/D/Y. Especially since every form and 99% of all paperwork over here requires the understood M/D/Y. I can't just start changing it willy-nilly and writing down a better more reasonable order that no one will understand unless it's explained to them. So unless there is a huge , every-American-gets-the-memo, date-writing-change - I guess I'm staying at M/D/Y.
*RASPBERRY*
Day/Month/Year is the only one true date system. Quite how M/D/Y ever got started is a mystery to me.
I will however switch to Y/M/D if doing anything with computer files/folders or other stuff that needs to be easily and/or automatically sorted. Plus that one makes more sense - you have a descending order from years thru to fractions of a second if you organise it Y/M/D H:M'S"fff (with an optional day-of-week or week number shoved in at the appropriate position for further fine tuning). It's actually the system I'd use if I a/ hadn't been raised to use DMY, b/ didn't live somewhere that everyone else used it.
I will however switch to Y/M/D if doing anything with computer files/folders or other stuff that needs to be easily and/or automatically sorted. Plus that one makes more sense - you have a descending order from years thru to fractions of a second if you organise it Y/M/D H:M'S"fff (with an optional day-of-week or week number shoved in at the appropriate position for further fine tuning). It's actually the system I'd use if I a/ hadn't been raised to use DMY, b/ didn't live somewhere that everyone else used it.
Zanarch: In that case, you lose the ability to say "it's twenty - ten - twenty-ten"... which... gah! Is today! I hadn't actually noticed. I have a poor grasp of time and date.
Will have to figure out something special to do tonight then, at 10 past 8. Or maybe 10 past 9 given that we're still, for a few days at least, in BST.
(this begs another potential question - do you use the 12 or 24 hour clock? it wavers for me. I write in 24h, but speak in 12h)
20:10 on 20/10/2010, that's gotta have some powerful juju attached. Too bad there aren't 20 months in a year so we could have 20:20 20/20/2020 in 10 years, really. We'll have to settle for 12 minutes past 8pm on the 20th of December 2012.
Will have to figure out something special to do tonight then, at 10 past 8. Or maybe 10 past 9 given that we're still, for a few days at least, in BST.
(this begs another potential question - do you use the 12 or 24 hour clock? it wavers for me. I write in 24h, but speak in 12h)
20:10 on 20/10/2010, that's gotta have some powerful juju attached. Too bad there aren't 20 months in a year so we could have 20:20 20/20/2020 in 10 years, really. We'll have to settle for 12 minutes past 8pm on the 20th of December 2012.
YYYY/MM/DD. That way, there's no question about what form I'm using - no one assumes that "2010" is a month or day, and I've never seen YYYY/DD/MM because that would be equally stupid as the American system, but also not what we Americans usually do.
Also, YYYY-MM-DD sorts correctly, when sorted as text. ^.^
Also, YYYY-MM-DD sorts correctly, when sorted as text. ^.^
