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day/month/year

Maximilian

Maximilian

Lifer
It just makes sense. month/day/year ?? lol...

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nickbits said:
Makes sense but is less usable. Same with metric.
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Both are infinitely more usable than our approach.

The military uses the Day-MON-Year format and I've used it for everything I put a date on. It's impossible to confuse (the confusion aspect would be removed if we stopped defaulting to doing it differently than everybody else, but... when will that happen?).

03JUN2012 just works beautifully, imho.
It doesn't, imho, really make much sense to even say 03.06.12, because though most of the world does in fact accept the 06 in this case as meaning June, without any context, it can still be confused.
 
I agree with you completely. Although I lived in the US almost all my life and use to seeing mon/day/year, upon seeing the European notation day/mon/year, it just seems to make more sense.

Agreeing to a standard is not something the US is good at. We're stubborn that way.
 
Pretty sure it comes from the way we verbalize the date. Normally you would say June 3rd, 2012, thus written as 6/3/2012.
 
MotionMan said:
Maybe it is a language thing - How do you say the date out loud?

MotionMan
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For most uses you can drop bits of info, but I'd say "3rd of June, 2013" for the whole thing. I'm also cool with yyyy-mm-dd, but for day to day use, the year doesn't usually matter as much.
 
lxskllr said:
For most uses you can drop bits of info, but I'd say "3rd of June, 2013" for the whole thing. I'm also cool with yyyy-mm-dd, but for day to day use, the year doesn't usually matter as much.
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In my daily life, I always say and almost always hear, "June 3rd, 2012," so MM/DD/YYYY makes perfect, if not the most, sense to me.

MotionMan
 
I don't much care what people say in day-to-day conversation, but if you're ever naming a file with a date make it YYYYMMDD. So many times I've seen people waste time searching for today's presentation because they used some non-sortable date representation for their file names.
 
MotionMan said:
In my daily life, I always say and almost always hear, "June 3rd, 2012," so MM/DD/YYYY makes perfect, if not the most, sense to me.

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In my daily life, I almost always hear just "the 3rd". It's almost always assumed the month is known.
 
esun said:
In my daily life, I almost always hear just "the 3rd". It's almost always assumed the month is known.
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In my business, sometimes the year is not known unless specifically stated, so I usually say and hear the whole thing, "June 3rd, 2012".

MotionMan
 
ElFenix said:
no, it doesn't. only year-month-day makes sense. when you count do you say 1 and 10 and 100? no. you say one hundred and eleven.
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Depends on the level of precision required. Unless I run into a confused naked dude in a dark alley, I'm going to give a person the day before the year.
 
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