Yet another vehicle recall!

[sdifox]

I think DD-MM-YYYY makes the most sense for day to day use, at least for writing systems that read left-to-right. The most useful piece of information (assuming you are more likely to remember what year it is ) is listed first.

Except that is confusing.

 

[KMFJD]

Oh I guess they don't keep those pages up, I should have taken a screenshot. It was a recall about the Starwars AT-AT.

As far as dates, IMO I hate any format that uses 3 sets of numbers, because every place does it differently and there's no consistency so you don't know what's month and what's day and in some case what's year. I tend to do mon-dd-yyyy myself where mon is the 3 letters. Though that does indeed pose an issue with sorting so that's a valid concern. If sorting is an issue I might actually do 01.jan, 02.feb etc. If I do use numerical format I do YYYY-MM-DD though.

If the world could decide on a single numerical format to use, and use it 100% consistently it would not be so bad. YYYY-MM-DD would make the most sense.

Why/what is the point of putting the date in the middle like that? mm/dd/yyyy is just wrong

 

[sdifox]

Why/what is the point of putting the date in the middle like that? mm/dd/yyyy is just wrong

It's just how spoken English is. I think all latin languages say day first then month.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's just how spoken English is. I think all latin languages say day first then month.

Yeah mostly that reason. Though come to think of it I don't really run into too many situations where I need to put the day too. Normally it's month-year then whatever is inside might have the day. It's how I store stuff like photos for example, and even backups. In the case of backups there will be 7 day of week folders inside the month-year folder, typically.

Really it seems the format that makes sense all depends on the context. For something like log files or backups, it might very well make more sense to do YYYY-MM-DD. But issue is, if you're not familiar with the system or forgot how you set it up, you have no quick way of knowing what is the day and what is the month without having to analyze the existing structure. So I generally hate using numerical months because of that.

 

[sdifox]

Yeah mostly that reason. Though come to think of it I don't really run into too many situations where I need to put the day too. Normally it's month-year then whatever is inside might have the day. It's how I store stuff like photos for example, and even backups. In the case of backups there will be 7 day of week folders inside the month-year folder, typically.

Really it seems the format that makes sense all depends on the context. For something like log files or backups, it might very well make more sense to do YYYY-MM-DD. But issue is, if you're not familiar with the system or forgot how you set it up, you have no quick way of knowing what is the day and what is the month without having to analyze the existing structure. So I generally hate using numerical months because of that.

No one has ever done yyyy dd mm.

 

[Squisher]

You want simple, let's go with a perpetual calendar. Today is 125, 2017