Why do Americans use the weirdest dating system?

[Tom]

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.

Our system goes by what is more important..

the month - cause it tells you what the weather will be.
the day - cause you need to know if it's a day off or two-fer-teusday.
the year - not important really, in day to day life.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
I don't care what you use, as long as you don't use tha julienne crap🙂

You mean Julian, right?
That's another bit of confusion as people use the terms interchangebly. It's easily figured out by inspection.

Julian Day = Day of the year (0-366) - used alot in the military. You'll often see dates as YYDDD.DDDD
Julian Date = Days since Jan 1 4713 BC (today is 2454829) - Used mostly in astronomy. Very convenient in programming as well as you can just subtract to get the difference between any two dates.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: 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

Bookmarked for reference for future employees 😉.

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
the more important questions is: what do China and India use? 😉

Why does it matter?

I know most Indians (in India) (since I don't know every single Indian in India) uses dd/mm/yy or some other similar format in that order. And I'm pretty sure China uses something similar as well.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I have adopted ze German format: dd.mm.yyyy

Today would be 03.04.2006 or 3. April 2006.

 

[mjh]

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

What? Most Americans definitely seem to use mm/dd/yyyy, not dd/mm/yyyy.

 

[xcript]

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

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

:thumbsup:

 

[silverpig]

I just say "today".

 

[Elderly Newt]

yeah, we should switch over to dd mm yyyy or yyyy mm dd and start using the metric system. but people, in general, are too stubborn, so that will never happen.

 

[cKGunslinger]

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

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

:thumbsup: This is the first thing I change on PCs I have to use for any period of time. Sorting files by date actually means something in this format.

 

[Deeko]

To piss you off, because we hate Belgium. Duh.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: logic1485

Originally posted by: 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

Bookmarked for reference for future employees 😉.

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
the more important questions is: what do China and India use? 😉

Why does it matter?

I know most Indians (in India) (since I don't know every single Indian in India) uses dd/mm/yy or some other similar format in that order. And I'm pretty sure China uses something similar as well.

because those two countries will have the largest populations and are predicted to dominate the global economy of the 21st century?

 

[JS80]

I prefer the Sharia dating system: I want her, her, and her. And her.

 

[bleeb]

The US is prideful like that.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

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

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

:thumbsup: This is the first thing I change on PCs I have to use for any period of time. Sorting files by date actually means something in this format.

I still don't understand that argument.

You still have to look at the end 6 digits, might as well look at the first 6 digits. I find that particularly easy. Meh, I guess to each his own.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: Deeko
To piss you off, because we hate Belgium. Duh.

Bwahhaaha, Belgians shall rule the world.

Actually, not the Indians will (/me is Indian)

 

[JS80]

We already know what year it is, so it's really yyyy-mm-dd but put the yyyy last because it doesn't change for 365 days.

 

[thehstrybean]

^^Then it shoud havre been, "Actually not, the Indians will"...It's an American thing...😛...J/K...
I don't write the date...people can look it up...
When I do, I write it dd/mm/yyyy, since my English teachers prefer this...

 

[Howard]

yyyy-mm-dd seems like the most logical method, though I personally use mm-dd-yyyy.

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: logic1485
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?

Because our inbred country bumpkins LIKE dating their cousins, THAT'S WHY!

(wait...I missed the point of this thread, didn't I?)

Joke: What's a <insert favorite southern state here. ie. West Virginia> citizens favorite part of Halloween?

A: Pumpkin.

Get it? Pump Kin??? (Yeah, whatever...you know it's funny!)

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: JS80
We already know what year it is, so it's really yyyy-mm-dd but put the yyyy last because it doesn't change for 365 days.

For all you people saying something similar to JS80, you guys must not be achiving stuff over a couple of years, even if it is just old school notes. You may want to know what year your stuff came from, for any amount of reasons, one of those being: which year did you buy that car or house or even iron.

 

[NFS4]

How about this? Quit the bull**** arguing and use whatever is most efficient/proper for your needs.

No one way is right or wrong.

 

[mugs]

ISO standard dates ftw. Completely unambiguous and easy to sort.

 

[SampSon]

MM-DD-YYYY works just peachy for me.

 

[ondarkness]

Originally posted by: Eghck
I thought you were gonna talk about something like 3rd base...

QFT

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: NFS4
How about this? Quit the bull**** arguing and use whatever is most efficient/proper for your needs.

No one way is right or wrong.

You, as a reporter should know the implications of this. Assume you want to have a internet conference at some point. Let's say the date is 01/02/03. That could mean either 1st February 2003 (dd/mm/yy), 2nd January 2003 (mm/dd/yy) or 3rd February 2001 (yy/mm/dd). I know it's common sense, but when looking at logs, you may want to know what happened when.