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day month year.
We say it like that also over here. So all those American's who think its a valid reason to make it Month Day Year, just because it's the way you usually say it in your language: nonsense! Even the British state it: day month year, not to mention other languages like mine.
DMY just makes more sense.
And yes, metric > imperial.
We say it like that also over here. So all those American's who think its a valid reason to make it Month Day Year, just because it's the way you usually say it in your language: nonsense! Even the British state it: day month year, not to mention other languages like mine.
DMY just makes more sense.
And yes, metric > imperial.
dd/mm/yyyy makes the most sense I think, it is the 17th day of the 3rd month of the 2010th year. The other just seems kind of garbled, it's the third month, and the 17th day of that month in the 2010th year.
Sure it is easy to use the other. but dd/mm/yyyy is the more logical of those two.
Sure it is easy to use the other. but dd/mm/yyyy is the more logical of those two.
Honestly, I've always written it down, Month/Day/Year because thats also how I would say the date if I were asked. Just how I was taught.
Either way works since its easy to work it out no matter how someone rights it.
I do understand that D/M/Y makes more sense in the sense of what each represents and going in larger increments.
Either way works since its easy to work it out no matter how someone rights it.
I do understand that D/M/Y makes more sense in the sense of what each represents and going in larger increments.
I say it Day/Month/Year. Standard to where I was born (England) and standard to most other places I know and have been except America. The month first feels wrong to me because it has always been the other way round for me. I also say the date and then the month, as in "it's the 16th of march today".
EDIT: Just to add: I don't mind that it is done month first but where is the logic?
EDIT: Just to add: I don't mind that it is done month first but where is the logic?
The only place that uses mm/dd/yyyy. Go join the army and see how fast they beast that out of you, I got out almost 10 years ago and I still write it dd/mm/yyyy.
As for us taking letters out of words, English, in any form is the hardest language on Earth to learn. Do you know why? Silent letters, letters that make different sounds based on where in a word they are, what letters are around it, whether there are vowels in the word elsewhere. Rules that only count about 70% of the time and the like. I would actually like to see silent letters removed from the language completely, change pneumonia to neumonia. Color has no need of the letter "u" anywhere in it, period. It makes no sound in the word, effects no other letters and doesn't change the context of the word. Color means color no matter where it is in a sentence and what words are around it.Baradiel said:
The American way is silly. It's Day/Month/Year. And it's perfectly correct to say 16. March 2010 (pronounced the sixteenth of March, 2010). And in Norwegian at least, you can't say month, day, year. That's incorrect. In fact, English is the only language I know where you can say that, but in English you can say it both ways. Therefore it's better (and more logical, considering the magnitude of the measurements) to write DD/MM/YYYY.
That is how I say it, actually. And besides, if you're ordering by number only, then a clear order is a better way. least amount of time - greatest amount of time.Seldon2639 said:
YYYY-MM-DD makes the most sense to me. Makes file sorting so much easier. I like going from coarse to granular. Dates should be before times. YYYY-MM-DD-HH-mm.
When spoken, you would simply start with the first different point and say as many further as necessary. For instance, if it is today at 15:00; we can say "15:00" and people would know it is today at that time. If it is next week, we say "the 26th at 14:00", if it is next month, we say "April 3rd" or "April 3rd at 09:00". If it is next year, we say "2011, February 9th, at 16:00" depending on how specific of time you need. If you don't indicate a different year, month, day, or hour, you know it is within the current one.
That's just my opinion, but if I try to put it into practice no one would understand me.
When spoken, you would simply start with the first different point and say as many further as necessary. For instance, if it is today at 15:00; we can say "15:00" and people would know it is today at that time. If it is next week, we say "the 26th at 14:00", if it is next month, we say "April 3rd" or "April 3rd at 09:00". If it is next year, we say "2011, February 9th, at 16:00" depending on how specific of time you need. If you don't indicate a different year, month, day, or hour, you know it is within the current one.
That's just my opinion, but if I try to put it into practice no one would understand me.
Agreed; and I refuse to change because it's hard enough just remembering that the year has changed, much less that it has a different order.Seldon2639 said:
Not that day/month/year doesn't make more sense; I'm just to lazy to do anything about the way I already know it.
