The Peoples Date Format

[daleyboy]

Btw i voted for wed 15th June

[Greer]

15-06-2005 is my preferred format, I think Insight probably meant all formats displaying in that kind of order.... or maybe he didn't.... Insight..?

This format is certainly more familiar, but it doesn't address the confusion it causes - and that is the main point that the ISO standard does address.

What date do I mean if I write that on the 1-6-04 someone did or said a particular thing?

Do I mean the 1st of June 2004 or the 6th of January, 2004? How do you know if I am pandering to the US or UK style?

Obviously dates involving numbers greater than 12 make the difference quite plain to see, but that still leaves a great deal of every month in date confusion...

The ISO 8601 date standard is one I have used in file names for a long time now (I actually didn't know it was a standard till today) - exactly because it prevents confusion, and it sorts easily on the computer.

In spoken communication I still use the normal date and month order (yes, I'm Australian - not American).

[lingling]

dd-mmm-yyyy, eg 01-Jul-2005 is the only one that won't cause confusion for some people.

[lingling]

I am still confident that YYYY-MM-DD is the future, maybe it's only a matter of habit to teach the world to use a logic date format. I'll do my best!

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That one only makes sense for

1) computer geeks

2) swedes

and you are both of those, right?

[roscoe]

The second is always unequivical,and as for Georges' post I bet he's got a Phd in pointless trivia.What we do without him .

[Thomas_Merton]

Any decisions been taken on the basis of this thread?

[mpdkorat]

Am I expected to read all that ?

Will there be a test later ?

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<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm studying now. BTW what day is it?

[Totster]

Am I expected to read all that ?

Will there be a test later ?

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I'm studying now. BTW what day is it?

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Wednesday..

totster

[Scott]

For those of us traversing the universe on the Starship Enterprise, this is a most enlightening thread--considering you are all Earthlings.

Beam me up, Scotty

(oops, I am Scotty)