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

[jimbo11883]

Dates suck. Sometimes I forget what day it is anyways, but I use MM/DD/YY.

[Julius Caro]

ditto, same here.

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

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I agree. I don't mind something like YYYY-MM-DD

, but MM-DD-YYYY drives me nuts :p

If there are a range of dates, for example, it's easy to guess the format used. But if it is a single date... blah :s

I use something like 10.Sep.2005 when I write for myself or something

[one321]

I totally agree with this standard. Here in the US, people write MM/DD/YY because that's how they would sound it out (September 10, 2005). I guess that makes sense, but I love using YYYY-MM-DD. It just makes sense. If you need to sort anything by date, this makes it very logical. Anything files or folder I need to title with a date get this date so I can easily look through them.

[PeteWhite]

I only use YYYY-MM-DD when I need to chronologically order files on the computer.

Pete

[one321]

I use something like 10.Sep.2005 when I write for myself or something

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Same here, I think when filling out an application or signing a check or anything else like that that 10 Sep 2005 is the easiest and most straight forward. No one has to guess the month and the day. Even 2005-09-10 could be confusing if someone is looking back at the date and wondering what month it was in... if they don't know you are using the ISO standard.

[ollie_webbuk]

Come on, we all know that DD-MM-YYYY is for winners.

[goheels681]

For most everything, i use MM/DD/YYYY, but for folders in My Pictures, I'll use YYYY-MM-DD, just to make sorting easier. But it confuses the hell out of me when you crazy Brits use DD-MM-YYYY

[scofo76]

I must admit i've never seen YYYY-MM-DD before that i can remember. I think i'll just stick to DD-MM-YYYY :yes:

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

why dont we just stick with the standard date format.. inorder to confuse LESS people.

DD-MM-YYYY...

goes in order...

or put it as

01/12/2005?

[Menge]

i use YYYYMMDD when i need to name files and have them sorted properly (it's a pretty good standard, cause standard alphabetic sorting just naturally sorts it right, whereas DDMMYYYY doesn't work quite well).

i think it's a standard that would come in veeery handy. much better than DDMMYYYY or MMDDYYYY. It'd confuse people less

[icecaveman]

Make file names and everything fix the order automatically (Detect the DD MM YYYY automatically), the technology is very much capable of this if only developers would take advantage of that, including Microsoft ofcourse.

So when viewed on a system of some American it can be viewd by his/her preferance.

[grimman]

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

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YYYY-MM-DD ftw! ;>

I was also surprised to see it when I first found out that it was an ISO standard. Other smart people also thought of it. And some of them were smart enough to make it a standard. ^^

Yay smart people.

[Purple Haze]

I can't stand anything besides MM/DD/YYYY. Ever. It's been ingrained into my head since age 3 and while I can/do understand when it's written other ways, I could never ever automatically write anything but MM/DD/YYYY. It's instinct by now.

[John S. Veteran]

Why don't you? :)

Cheers,

McoreD

2005-09-10

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because it's backwards 09/10/05 :p

Funny that it's an ISO standard, my company is ISO certified and I've never seen anything but MM/DD/YYYY at work. Man I used to hate those ISO audits. Glad I'm not in an office job anymore.

Edited September 11, 2005 by adonai

[ZappBrannigan]

Some people are saying they use MM/DD/YYYY becouse that is how its said.

What if you did this with time?

You say its twenty past four.

So why not put the 20 first lol?

20:04

Now that would be confusing!!

[tch1005]

I use that format all the time as i find the other confusing (I mean 05/12/05...is it the 5th of Dec. or 12th of May?...at least 2005 12 5 always means Dec. 5, 05)

So i personally use 2005年12月05日 everywhere...I might actually "2005Y 12M 05D" it...but it's always the same...

[episode]

Some people are saying they use MM/DD/YYYY becouse that is how its said.

What if you did this with time?

You say its twenty past four.

So why not put the 20 first lol?

20:04

Now that would be confusing!!

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That isn't an equal comparison. An equal comparison would be saying "its four twenty".

Or you can compare "twenty past four" to saying "fifth of may, two thosand five".

[munashii]

Come on, we all know that DD-MM-YYYY is for winners.

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:yes:

[Zoneblitz61]

I use DD-3LetterMonth-YYYY cuz its the military way of doin it, sometimes its YYYYMMDD on certain documents though

[Rigby]

I organize my photo albums like this:

2005-MAR-12

[uniacidz]

I do use 2005/MM/DD

Our work uses YY/MM/DD

Easier for archiving

[Miuku.]

DD/MM/YYYY.

[RebelFX]

In Spain and Latin America is used this format DD-MM-YY.

Sometimes I get confused when I check out American boards where there's a different format.

[theyarecomingforyou]

I don't understand the US method of MM-DD-YY - it just seems to confuse the international community. To me it is logical to think DAY, MONTH, YEAR - smallest to largest. That's why 9/11 is completely baffling - to me that is the 9th of November.

[Ajapi]

I don't understand the US method of MM-DD-YY - it just seems to confuse the international community. To me it is logical to think DAY, MONTH, YEAR - smallest to largest. That's why 9/11 is completely baffling - to me that is the 9th of November.

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That's just because of how they read the date: in English you say "September 11, 2003".