Dates

[Cloudbringer]

I don't say the '4th of July' for anything but the holiday -Independence Day.... when disussing the date itself, more often than not, I'd say July 4th or 5th or my birthday is October 1st... must be one of those weird Yank mutations I guess!

[Bungleau]

I use a combination. I use dd/mmm/yyyy, where I spell out the month. Today is 4 Mar 03, for example.

Lot less possibility for confusion there.

The other variation I've seen is to use Roman Numerals for the month. So today would be 4/IV/03. Haven't seen that much in a number of years, though.

Sorry, Willow; I'm not helping the North American cause much

[Rikard_OHF]

well consideri8ng the result
we should force ziroc to change the IW date format

[Grojlach]

*shrugs*
People will just prefer the order they're familiar with... I'm curious if there are actually people around here who are most familiar with one but think the other one is more logical. I think that would be more interesting to find out than what this particular poll, as at this moment, the result will merely indicate if there are more Americans than non-Americans around here (or more who bother to vote) or vice versa.

[ 03-04-2003, 10:39 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[realbinky]

Bungleau, that's the way I do it as well. No possibility of mixing DD and MM.

[Rikard_OHF]

Originally posted by realbinky: Bungleau, that's the way I do it as well. No possibility of mixing DD and MM.

I like days beyond the 12th
no change of mixing that up either
or are there people who think 13-12-2003 means the 12th day of the 13th month ¬_¬

[pritchke]

DD/MM/YYYY

I like this format because it goes from smallest measurement of time to largest.

As well the context "The 1st day of the third month in the year 1600 of our lord" or something. Hasn't anyone watched Swiss Family Robinson they always started the show of like that.

[Timber Loftis]

I still think a good argument for MM/DD/YYYY is that the MM/YYYY are certainly the most referenced parts on any communication. The DD part only becomes important in a few, push-the-deadline, contexts. Business information usually goes on months and years. Billing compiled and bills paid each month, 3 months is a quarter, what month did we ask for that, etc. So, there's the best argument I have for doing it my way - efficiency of the MM/DD/YYYY as a reference tool. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[edit] If MM/DD/YYYY is not used, I thing the best next option is YYYY/MM/DD. Descending order of size, the YYYY is certainly the absolutely most important piece of information, and the DD at the end is mostly unused.

[ 03-04-2003, 12:45 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]

[slicer15]

Originally posted by Rikard_OHF: it's simply impossible to say something like January 6th in dutch you just say 6 Januari and thats that Januari de 6e would be just plain weird and i thought that in german the prenounciation is DAy/Month aswell 6. Januar or something (not compleetly sure, since i never got a got any higher then a 5 for german on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest)

A bit late, but yes, in German you say "sechster Januar" - 6th January literally translated.

DD/MM/YYYY rocks man! Mostly 'cos I'm used to it though!

[Bungleau]

Gotta disagree with you somewhat, TL. MM/DD/YYYY is commonly used for business... in North America. Elsewhere in the world, it is more common to use DD/MM/YYYY.

From a programming perspective, I prefer YYYY/MM/DD. Why? Because if you string 'em all together and remove the punctuation, it sorts nicely. 20030304 will always sort properly with the dates around it in a nice left-justified manner. If you use 03042003 or 04032003, you have to parse the date in order to figure out which one is bigger.