DD/MM/YY(YY) whenever there is a labelled block for numbers, as on cheques from the bank. When left to my own devices, I always write it - eg. Jan. 1, 2012, because there is no standardized format in Canada that is used by everyone, and I don’t like ambiguous dates (I’ve worked in accounting too long for that). My pet peeve - people who STILL manage to screw up the dates even when there are labelled blocks for them to use - obviously, blocks with DD MM and YYYY in it are too hard for some people to understand.
Aussie here: dd/mm/yyyy
Only if you ignore the actual digits of the numbers. I cite my previous post:
American: 43-21-8765
Euro/Australia/wherever: 21-43-8765
ISO 8601: 8765-43-21
Which is more in order? If you printed these on a strip of paper and had to make them match the ISO order, the American system would require one cut instead of two for the Euro system.
At any rate, this is just quibbling since neither one is logical. But MM-DD does have practical benefits for me, with the added advantage that other Americans are not confused.
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I didn’t vote since this popular option isn’t listed.
Don’t vote in public polls, but I do AD/BC. Thailand follows the European system of day/month/year, as an American I do month/day/year, so I switch between the two depending on whom I’m writing it down for. Helps if I’m dealing with dates that are only after the 12th of each month; then there’s no room for ambiguity.
For official stuff, I do it the normal US way month (written out), day (numerical), year (four digit). So, January 1, 2012, for example.
For personal writing, I tend to do year (four digit), month (in Roman numerals), day (numerical). So, 2012·I·1. For naming files, YYYYMMDD, so 20120101.
day month year or year month day
If I want to be really clear then it is Sunday 1 January 2012
Note: don’t do this on an IRS 10-40 form. No way Jose, for that you have to do it the American way of 1/1/12
When I sign things, I write Day of Month/ Abb. Month / Last two Digits of the Year - like 1 Jan 12. Sometimes I put the full year, but I have sloppy handwriting - last year’s year looked like I wrote 1ja_200L.
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Indeed. Like civilized people.
Ditto with addresses - smallest to largest :
house number, street name, suburb/city with relevant post code, country
so there!
Or, more simply, “almost what panache45 said.”
Same here. I choose between the longer version with punctuation and the shorter version without depending on who’s reading and how difficult it is to include punctuation. I also use the short version for filenames and folder names on computers, when saving things that have multiple edition whose names otherwise are not very important. For example I might have a folder called ToDo and keep “to do” lists in it whose names are just ISO8601 timestamps.
That is new to me and as stupid as I think some of ISO is, it is worth considering.
12 years ago I decided to join the rest of the world with day,month, year writing out the month, i.e. 02jan12, to make it clear I don’t mean the first of February. If it seems necessary, I would add BC or AD. Perhaps being a Christian reinforces my sticking with the way it has always been. Everybody knows what BC and AD means. As long as we stick to 2012, the easily offended non Christians still have a grievance. The big joke is that Herod died in 4 BC.
I really think we need to compromise and standardize on some stuff. Since the western world has dominated things in more recent times, we may as well stick to their stuff. I am sure the Chinese and Indians had measurement systems long before Napoleon and whatever big footed English King were born. Possibly due to stupidity of our state department, the metric system spread through out the third world after WWII. The sooner everybody adopts it the better. Just leave my legacy #6, #8, and #10 screws where 2 mm, 4mm, or 5mm weren’t used originally. As mentioned in the screw thread, repair people need everything that was ever used. I doubt there were ever cubit based threads.
MM/DD/YYYY. If I have to indicate an era, I’ll use CE/BCE.
I selected ‘AD/BCE’ because I’m utterly inconsistent with remembering which to use
Oh, and DD/MM/YYYY. Of course.
Taking the thread title literally, I’ve come back to admit that I’ve never tried to express dates. Nor figs or prunes.