MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY?

[BigToque]

I always write dates as DD/MM/YYYY.

MM/DD/YYYY seems wrong to me.

 

[mugs]

YYYY-MM-DD (ISO standard)

Edit: Is DD/MM/YYYY standard in Canada? I know it is in the UK. MM/DD/YYYY is standard in the US. I suspect people just use whatever is standard where they live...

 

[arcenite]

Originally posted by: Stefan
I always write dates as DD/MM/YYYY.

MM/DD/YYYY seems wrong to me.

I am backwards from you

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: mugs
YYYY-MM-DD (ISO standard)

 

[Legend]

I've always done and seen MM/DD/YYYY.

In fact, I'm about touch up some screens on an interface to an embedded system that uses MM/DD/YYYY, so there. Nyah.

 

[DaShen]

You silly foreigners with your stupid metric system and logical time scales.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

I always use DD-MON-YYYY for anything requiring a date. It's a habit I got into here at work.

09-Sep-2005

 

[Amused]

DD/MM/YYYY

 

[ColdFusion718]

I believe in Europe, they do DD/MM/YYYY. I've seen it done in New Zealand (yeah I know that's not Europe).

 

[Uppsala9496]

I go with the standard wherever I am. Less confusion then.

 

[GeneValgene]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: mugs
YYYY-MM-DD (ISO standard)

this is best...easiest to sort

 

[Quasmo]

you say "January 1st 1999" not "1st January 1999"

 

[jjones]

dd/mm/yyyy

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: GeneValgene

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: mugs
YYYY-MM-DD (ISO standard)

this is best...easiest to sort

it's how i have to enter most of my dates here at work - in Excel or what have you, so it's what i usually stick with.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
you say "January 1st 1999" not "1st January 1999"

Nope. We say "First of January 1999".

 

[DnetMHZ]

9/9/2005 you figure it out

 

[EyeMWing]

I hate hate hate HATE when people put stuff on teh intarweb with the date in any format other than written out or ISO. Because you can almost NEVER tell which standard they used.

 

[RossMAN]

USA - mm/dd/yyyy

International - dd/mm/yyyy

Since I work in international banking the format I use is yymmdd such as 050909 for today.

 

[samgau]

I could get used to YYYY/MM/DD....
Grew up using metric so DD/MM/YYYY was what I was familiar with, then I came to the US and bam MM/DD/YYYY... that threw me in a loop... all ok now..

 

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: Stefan
I always write dates as DD/MM/YYYY.

MM/DD/YYYY seems wrong to me.

The first method is the "metric" way that most of the world uses.

The second method is the "American" or "Real" method that people who aren't bass ackwards use.

 

[spidey07]

this is america.

we us month/date/year

this ain't france. this is america

 

[Kenazo]

yyyy-mm-dd makes the most sense, but I use mm-dd-yyyy

 

[13Gigatons]

mm/dd/yyyy

 

[Whitecloak]

DD-MMM-YYYY

 

[bigrash]

MM/DD/YYYY