Why don't you? (YYYY-MM-DD)

[McoreD]

I've been used to write the date as 20050910 anywhere I go, but didn't really know it was actually an ISO standard. :D

The new format has already been adopted by many organizations worldwide. And many more should do so ? to make their own lives simpler. And everybody else's.

http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/p...tesandtime.html

Why don't you:):)

Cheers,

McoreD

2005-09-10

[pcw]

Yep, standards are great.

[jafoman]

I use that format whenever I create folders so I can easily sort them... :)

[McoreD]

Yes; I love the fact that it is actually an ISO standard. My colleagues used question me about this whenver they saw me writing the date this way.

From the ISO.org page:

Date and time represents a specified time of a specified day. When use is made of the calendar date the representation is:

YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss

where the capital letter T is used to separate the date and time components. Thus, for a very precise date and time, look at this:

Example: 2003-04-01T13:01:02 represents one minute and two seconds after one o'clock in the afternoon of 2003-04-01.

I used the actual day to seperate date and time. Example:

2003-04-01TUE13:01:02

2005-09-10SAT09:16:20

Guess I should get used to the ISO 8601 standard.

[downhillmatt2002]

yeah i use that except DD-MM-YYYY

[Orange Battery]

Yes; I love the fact that it is actually an ISO standard. My colleagues used question me about this whenver they saw me writing the date this way.

From the ISO.org page:

Date and time represents a specified time of a specified day. When use is made of the calendar date the representation is:

YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss

where the capital letter T is used to separate the date and time components. Thus, for a very precise date and time, look at this:

Example: 2003-04-01T13:01:02 represents one minute and two seconds after one o'clock in the afternoon of 2003-04-01.

I used the actual day to seperate date and time. Example:

2003-04-01TUE13:01:02

2005-09-10SAT09:16:20

Guess I should get used to the ISO 8601 standard.

586502431[/snapback]

:laugh: Go out and have some fun sir

[SojIrOu]

hmm this is the way the chinese/japanese/not sure who else have been writing their dates for like thousands of years (i've written it that way in class for letters and stuff)

i personally prefer the DD-MM-YYYY format :laugh: i'm always confused when i see something thats in MM-DD-YYYY.

[Creamy]

Everything except DD-MM-YYYY makes me completly confused...

[ZappBrannigan]

DD-MM-YYYY :yes:

MM-DD-YYYY :wacko:

YYYY-MM-DD :rofl:

[rob.derosa]

its like changing GMT to UTC

total waste of time and money haha

[SojIrOu]

at least they didn't come up with something like MM-YY-DD

[tuckeratlarge]

I only understand and use DD/MM/YY or DD/MM/YYYY or something along the lines of >10th September 2005<

I confuses the arse off me when no-UK people use MM/DD/YYYY especially when the day value is below 12 :rolleyes:

[rob.derosa]

I only understand and use DD/MM/YY or DD/MM/YYYY or something along the lines of >10th September 2005<

I confuses the arse off me when no-UK people use MM/DD/YYYY especially when the day value is below 12  :rolleyes:

586504594[/snapback]

i think it ssomething to do with how they say the dates. i guess that the majority of them said "September 24th 1785" rather than "24th September 1785". and it stuck. hence the mm/dd/yyyy

[kangie]

Tbh, in life, you know the year so it should go last... the most important is the day, and then the month...

It doesn't matter what year it is for say, birthdays etc...

[turkishdelight]

As an American, I'm used to writing MM/DD/YYYY or MM/DD/YY or Month Day, Year. However, I understand that it's confusing for those not in the US. I still do that, though.

[Colin-uk Veteran]

Everything except DD-MM-YYYY makes me completly confused...

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I only understand and use DD/MM/YY or DD/MM/YYYY or something along the lines of >10th September 2005<

I confuses the arse off me when no-UK people use MM/DD/YYYY especially when the day value is below 12  :rolleyes:

586504594[/snapback]

ditto, same here.

its just confusing when some people put the month first :s

[AcdShdw]

i use MM-DD-YYYY, if i see the day first it confuses the hell outta me since it doesnt match up with the month , makes me feel like i traveled thru time

[summers]

People normally know what month & year it is, so its logical that the date should come first.

[kangie]

There should be some way of specifying whether its the day or month first... It does get confusing... how are you supposed to know otherwise?!

[Jase]

SS-DD-MM-YYYY

figure out the S :rofl:

[turkishdelight]

I generally use the long date format (e.g. September 10, 2005) to avoid confusion.

[Nighthawk-F117]

I use DD-MM-YY or DD-MM-YYYY.

That way makes much more sense, the current day, the current month, the current year.

[dsteele_7]

I've actually almost always used YYYY-MM-DD lol... it just made sense to me

good to see that I was ahead of the curve lol.

[Shadrack]

try working on a database with data being collected from sources all around the world. Then you get a pretty good feel for the frustration level concerning date formats. Let me tell ya.....

[Ironman273]

The reason why US uses MM-DD-YYYY is because of how it's spoken. You say "Today is September 10th, 2005." In the romantic languages though (Spanish, French, Italian) you say it DD-MM-YYYY as in "Hoy es el 10 de septiembre del 2005."