Poll: Dating...help me solve this problem

[BlindMessiah94]

So, a big pet peeve of mine is how dates are ordered.
I think the norm should be Month/Day/Year, because that is how people SAY the date.
No one would say when asked "What is the current date?":
"2012, 16th, March"
or
"16th, 2012, March"
etc.
It gets very confusing when people just list a date and there is no standard way of interpreting it.

05/08/12 could be May 8th, 2012 or The 5th of August 2012, or the 8th of December 2005 or etc etc.

I say the insanity must end!
I vote the norm should be Month/Day Year!
What's your vote?
/discuss!

EDIT: Wow what a popular subject...Well the masses have spoken and it is clearly Day/Month/Year by a landslide!
I am now going to go around correcting people until they conform!

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I'll get back to you on 17/10/03

 

[Julianking93]

I date it 27/9/93

(my birthdate if you couldn't tell)

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Sleekgiant]

Oh great now I have to be OCD here, it shall always be month/date/year for me

 

[Gxas]

Hooray America being different from the rest of the world.

We aren't better because we're different, we just make everything more difficult. Adapt what the rest of the world does and I'll be fine.

Yes, metric > american.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

Seriosly misleading title...

But it should always be date/month/year, because it's common sense.

The only other common sense is the other way round, but that doesn't make much sense either.

 

[Lukeje]

Day:Month:Year. Like normal people do it.

 

[Daveman]

They UK does Day/Month/Year. The obvious and best way to do it.
So today is 16/03/2010

 

[Calobi]

While I prefer Month/Day/Year, with the understanding that most everyone else does Day/Month/Year I feel that should be the standard. It would make the transition easiest as the fewest people would need to change.

 

[SnipErlite]

Day, Month, Year

Ascending order of length.

I think it's more logical than MDY

 

[Seldon2639]

I'm a dirty American, and we do Month/Day/Year.

So, it's 3/16/2010 today.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

I hate the Month/Day/Year version.

Just why?

Day/Month/Year is so much easier, plus it's in bloody order! From smallest amount of time to largest.

 

[Seldon2639]

I hate the Month/Day/Year version.

Just why?

Day/Month/Year is so much easier, plus it's in bloody order! From smallest amount of time to largest.

Think about saying it aloud.

We say "March sixteenth, twenty-ten", not "sixteen, March, twenty-ten".

Month/Day/Year is reflective of spoken English.

 

[Jharry5]

Day/Month/Year makes the most sense to me. It's what I've been brought up using, so I vote for that.
[sub]Also, just wondering whether anywhere else besides the USA does the Month/Day/Year method?[/sub]

 

[ethaninja]

Continuity. I like having it the way it should and should always be. Besides, 21st of the 7th 2010 just sounds better anyway.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

i differentiate between day/month/year and month/day/year.

 

[WrongSprite]

I hate the Month/Day/Year version.

Just why?

Day/Month/Year is so much easier, plus it's in bloody order! From smallest amount of time to largest.

Think about saying it aloud.

We say "March sixteenth, twenty-ten", not "sixteen, March, twenty-ten".

Month/Day/Year is reflective of spoken English.

No...over here we say "Sixteenth of March, 2010."

Don't assume that your language is the same as ours...

 

[Eliam_Dar]

I am used to spanish configuration, and it really makes sense to me, it is dd/mm/yy