Why do Americans use the weirdest dating system?

[Cristatus]

It's supposed to be dd/mm/yy, not mm/dd/yy! Why you guys gotta be the other way around?
Whats with all this metric/imperial stuff, and the date things?

 

[notfred]

I use yyyy-mm-dd

All other systems are stupid. Everyone should use the ISO standard.

 

[JDrake]

Because month and year are the most important, so you can just chop out the middle
AKA:
Today is 4/3/2006
but get rid of that 3 for more general
4/2006
or 4/06

Have you ever played JENGA? You take out the middle peices first... duhhhh.

 

[Skunkwourk]

I thought you were gonna talk about something like 3rd base...

 

[JLGatsby]

The day comes first because it's the most specific, then the month, then the year.

It's in order of how specific.

YOUR system is the "wack" one.

 

[FoBoT]

we don't use metric dates

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: notfred
I use yyyy-mm-dd

All other systems are stupid. Everyone should use the ISO standard.

Agree - has the added advantage that it sorts properly as a string.

 

[JDrake]

Plus, you write it:
April 3, 2006
Not "3 April 2006" : that looks stupid and the 3 can be combined with any numbers previous to typing/writing the date.

Example:
1:Who is Mike Jones?
2:3 April 2006 was the date that Mike Jones gave birth, what did he name his baby?

You see? Now you have no idea whether that is question 2:3 (ratio) or question 2! Ehhhh??
With "rd" and "nd", it just becomes a fraction instead of a ratio.

 

[Frostwake]

No, you write it:

3rd April, 2006

 

[So]

We're just different. It's a standard, and it may be illogical, but its just as good as any other, once you memorize it, and we're used to it. Sorry, it's nothing personal against non-americans.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: Frostwake
No, you write it:

3rd April, 2006

Exactly.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby
The day comes first because it's the most specific, then the month, then the year.

It's in order of how specific.

YOUR system is the "wack" one.

That's what I'm saying is the proper system: dd/mm/yy (or yyyy if you prefer)

 

[TheTony]

You're all out of order!

Stardate is where it's at.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: notfred
I use yyyy-mm-dd

All other systems are stupid. Everyone should use the ISO standard.

So, what is the ISO standard for this? I'm pretty sure it's dd/mm/yy (or yyyy, not sure).

 

[JLGatsby]

Originally posted by: logic1485


That's what I'm saying is the proper system: dd/mm/yy (or yyyy if you prefer)

...........And that's how Americans do it....atleast most of us, from what I've seen.

That's how I've seen it most used.

day/month/year

 

[GeneValgene]

Originally posted by: notfred
I use yyyy-mm-dd

All other systems are stupid. Everyone should use the ISO standard.

QFT

 

[So]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby

Originally posted by: logic1485


That's what I'm saying is the proper system: dd/mm/yy (or yyyy if you prefer)

...........And that's how Americans do it....atleast most of us, from what I've seen.

That's how I've seen it most used.

day/month/year

No way, Gatsby.

Look around. The vast majority of us use MM/DD/YYYY

 

[five40]

Originally posted by: notfred
I use yyyy-mm-dd

All other systems are stupid. Everyone should use the ISO standard.

I do the same. It's so much easier.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: logic1485

Originally posted by: notfred
I use yyyy-mm-dd

All other systems are stupid. Everyone should use the ISO standard.

So, what is the ISO standard for this? I'm pretty sure it's dd/mm/yy (or yyyy, not sure).

http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html

YYYY-MM-DD

For date & time
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss

 

[Zugzwang152]

the more important questions is: what do China and India use?

 

[Baked]

I thought you're talking about guy and girl going out.

 

[Czar]

yyyy-mm-dd or dd-mm-yyyy anything else doesnt make sense

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I don't care what you use, as long as you don't use tha julienne crap

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I use DD-MMM-YYYY. Today would be 03-APR-2006. Some habbits from some of my old customers stuck with me and that's one of them.

 

[alien42]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby
The day comes first because it's the most specific, then the month, then the year.

It's in order of how specific.

YOUR system is the "wack" one.

jlgatsby self ownage quoted for posterity