rdaner
Senior Member
I like the dd-mm-yy format instead of a mm-dd-yy for internet posts. Is there anyone else who cares?
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EnviroTO
Senior Member
I'm more of a yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm (2007-07-06 01:37) person myself. Alternately an internet beats spin off yyyy:ddd.ddd (2007:186.234 UTC).
scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
Month, day, year. We say it, so we might as well see it.
EnviroTO
Senior Member
^ We also say quarter past seven.... we don't write 1/4p:7. In addition historically it was more natural to say something like "the twenty-fifth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four" which would suggest day-month-year.
yyyy-MM-dd... we put the most significant value on the left and least significant on the right when using numbers so if it isn't being spelt out then show it in true numeric format. It also makes more sense when sorting. Friday, July 6, 2007 or 2007-07-06 makes the most sense to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
yyyy-MM-dd... we put the most significant value on the left and least significant on the right when using numbers so if it isn't being spelt out then show it in true numeric format. It also makes more sense when sorting. Friday, July 6, 2007 or 2007-07-06 makes the most sense to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
JasonParis
Moderator
Sort of. I do too prefer the dd-mm-yy format, but I'm not sure if there's even an option to change it on vBulletin.
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Hydrogen
Guest
One has to wonder why such a thing has never been standardized.
MisterF
Senior Member
I'm pretty sure the ISO standard is year-month-day. That's the way I number files at work, so they end up being displayed chronologically.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
If someone asked him the time, my father would say things like "five-and-twenty to six" for 5:35, which drew blank stares from most people. I think it was a Victorian way of speaking he picked up from his parents, who were born in the 1880's.
JasonParis
Moderator
The first time I was in the U.K. I was always stumped by all the "half six" or "half ten" talk. I always had to think do they mean "30 minutes to seven" or "30 minutes to six." I eventually figured it out.
Observer Walt
Senior Member
Mister F, I believe the ISO standard is year-month-day as you suggest. But I've noticed that in Canada at least, no one uses this format except elementary school teachers who apparently teach it to kids, only to have it ignored in the "real world". (So I'm told by my sister-in-law, an elementary teacher who thinks it's a bit hilarious.)
scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
Day-month-year could work, but the year is irrelevant to internet posts so it should not be first.