Poll: How do you write the date?

[Betancore]

Well, take today's date. If I was writing it at the top of my schoolwork, as I have a habit of doing, I'd write '201010' but if I was writing the date in full, I'd write October 20, 2010. Teachers hate it, because in Australia we usually write 20 October 2010 instead.

 

[JenSeven]

Day/Month/Year

It's the logical choice, you start with the fastest one and end with the slowest one.

 

[Sun Flash]

DD/MM/YYYY

One of the reasons you get people going "NEVAR FORGET" on 9th November.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Day/Month/Year, as it goes up incrementally - seems the most logical way to do it. Also I suppose being British is a factor.

 

[Summerstorm]

Day/month/year. German standard.

Putting the month before day is american weirdness. Like inches, pounds, gallons and not knowing that europe is not a country *g*.

It is smallest unit to highest. (I could also accept highest to lowest) But you don't mix it for the hell of it. THERE HAS TO BE ORDER!!!

 

[Kenko]

The way it should be written Year/Month/day. Anything else is retarded.

Big-endian doesn't make sense for dating - the day is usually more significant than the year in discussions involving dates.

How in the hell is a day more significant then the year? Thats completley stupid and retarded. Pfft, Americans.

 

[smithy_2045]

Day Month Year, is what I write.

Year Month Day also makes sense though.

Month Day Year doesn't make sense no matter which way you look at it.

 

[Vrach]

D/M/Y if numeric format (20.10.2010), written month/day/year (October 20th, 2010) if writing out the month. I fucking HATE M/D/Y in numeric format as it's so unnecessarily confusing. Especially when thinking on September 11th (I WAS kinda thinking WTF though...) that CoD: Black Ops is coming out.

 

[Vrach]

The way it should be written Year/Month/day. Anything else is retarded.

Big-endian doesn't make sense for dating - the day is usually more significant than the year in discussions involving dates.

How in the hell is a day more significant then the year? Thats completley stupid and retarded. Pfft, Americans.

Because if someone walks up to you on the street and asks "hey, what year is it?", you call the mental institution, not answer his question.

 

[Kenko]

The way it should be written Year/Month/day. Anything else is retarded.

Big-endian doesn't make sense for dating - the day is usually more significant than the year in discussions involving dates.

How in the hell is a day more significant then the year? Thats completley stupid and retarded. Pfft, Americans.

Because if someone walks up to you on the street and asks "hey, what year is it?", you call the mental institution, not answer his question.

Worst example ever?

For archives, almanacks and such it makes more sense to take do it like "year/month/day". And for most things, minus asking someone the damn date.

 

[Hosker]

Why did Americans have to change it? It makes way more sense to have it Day/Month/Year.

 

[Vrach]

The way it should be written Year/Month/day. Anything else is retarded.

Big-endian doesn't make sense for dating - the day is usually more significant than the year in discussions involving dates.

How in the hell is a day more significant then the year? Thats completley stupid and retarded. Pfft, Americans.

Because if someone walks up to you on the street and asks "hey, what year is it?", you call the mental institution, not answer his question.

Worst example ever?

For archives, almanacks and such it makes more sense to take do it like "year/month/day". And for most things, minus asking someone the damn date.

As the person above you said, it's more relevant in discussions (which might just be me, but seems like referring to casual day-to-day discussion rather than archives dating...). Also I ask other people the date all the time and get it all the time as well.

F. ex. going to a concert, got the tickets, they say 25th October, talking to a mate, one might ask the other what day it is to figure out in how many days that is.

I get it if you keep track of the current date all the time though. Lots of people don't however (myself very much included), that's what I (and I assume RAK) meant. No hostility intended tho btw... just seemed a fun joke that sorta demonstrated my point :>

 

[Rusman]

Day/Month/Year, just like the rest of the UK

Can't say any more than this.

 

[Jewrean]

Month/Day/Year

Only Americans really do that.

Day / Month / Year makes more sense obviously.

However I will add that if you are alphabetically ordering some files that are only labeled as dates that the American style of dates sorts them properly.


"the origins lie in how the date was written in full. the english would write the 5th of december 2010 which results in 05-12-2010 and Americans would write December the 5th 2010 which results in 12-05-2010

p.s. we all know the only logical way to write down dates is the scandinavian notation. they write YYYY MM DD which can then be superceded by HH:MM:SS. this works very well in computing as it alowers for easier alphabetisation

2010/12/05-12:51:33"

 

[Halceon]

In order of relevance. DD/MM/(YY)YY

 

[Billska]

DD/MM/YYYY

The good old aussie way.

 

[RobotSwordsman]

Day/Month/Last two numbers of the year
(e.g. 20/10/96)