Poll: Dating...help me solve this problem

[Daniel Cygnus]

Month/Day/Year. I know that Day/Month/Year makes more sense numerically, but considering how people actually speak, M/D/Y's just easier.

 

[Aurora219]

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

Month/Day/Year is reflective of spoken English.

"What date is it today?"
"The sixteenth of March, Twenty-Ten."

That's the way we do it around these lands.

Therefore D/M/Y also reflects spoken English.

You folks are weird.

But, yeah. We write whatever version is what's spoken around us. Unless, of course, the speaking is determined by how it's written. But then, we have a recursive loop and heads go 'splode.

Yeah, well 71% say the British way is best (and that you're the one that's weird). Win!

I always wondered which way was more accepted.

 

[Optional Opinion]

I don't understand why this thread is continuing (I'm not helping)
Americans use month/day/year because they say March 17th 2010 (generally)
British use day/moth/year because we say 17th of March 2010
Other countries... I have no idea.

I don't understand why people are repeating each other's ignorance, who cares how you say/write it as long as I get my fucking birthday card!

 

[AwesomeExpress]

Lol, I thought you meant dating as in "Dating and Relationships" perhaps that's what you intended, so that people would be lured on in..

Anyway, if you ask me, I think any way other than day/month/year is just plain silly.

Also, if you want dating/relationship advice, I'd say just get her flowers and tell her she's pretty. Then you can get away with anything you want. Women are weak that way.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

I think it's a cultural thing, or regional, mi amigo from texas puts his year, month, day. but in Ohio, we go month,day,year.

btw i love how you titled this, I was expecting yet another thread looking for dating advice

 

[Veilside]

For some reason I have an easier time of calling soccer "futbol" than I do thinking day/month/year. I feel it's alittle ironic that the only date I say "X of Y" is the date of our(USA) independence. Oh and one in spanish also.

 

[Slipped Mind]

It's always been day/month/year for me. I've seen people do month/day/year, but nothing else. :-/

 

[The Heik]

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!

I usually go date/month/year as it doesn't bounce around, and that's how I was taught it.

Though I must say, I was expecting something entirely different when I opened up this thread.......

 

[Fellwarden]

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.

Yeah, thanks for being an asshole. I'm sure you'll get SCORES of us Yanks to try it your way by jumping up and down and saying "THIS IS THE WAY TO DO IT, YOU IDIOTS!!"

I'd hardly call it jumping up and down and saying you're wrong. I am simply giving valid reasons for why DD/MM/YYYY should be the standard. I believe I made it quite clear that both ways are grammatically correct in English, however, in several other languages, it would only be grammatically correct to say it in that order. I am quite astonished you were able to be offended by that post. However, I assure you, I did not mean to offend anyone. It doesn't matter much for me anyway, seeing as I am rarely exposed to the American standard of writing dates. I am simply expressing my view on the matter.