Our bird lab instituted a dd-MON-yyyy policy to be written down on all datasheets after the Patuxent Bird Lab got back to us that some banded birds we were reporting didn’t jive with their biology (i.e., they were at a place during a time of the year that they shouldn’t have been). A little investigation showed that our european post-docs were using a different date formula and it didn’t translate well on the datasheets sent to the national lab. Whoopsie!
I feel that the date format vote was premature. We first need a date format Constitution. I mean, is a simple majority sufficient to overturn the current standard, or do the 17-May-2022 heretics require some kind of supermajority?
The vote is a non-binding referendum for fact-finding only. We will then spend 12 Million Clams on a 7 year study before reaching a conclusion that too much time was spent worrying about this.
The chaotic mods may each pick a different standard, too, so it might depend on who tags the thread.
Bwah ha ha ha
I didn’t vote for him.
Duh, nobody votes for a king… unless it’s an elective monarchy like Poland used to be… but the historical precedent is not good, not good at all (see Poland, partitionS of)…
I’ll get back to you.
How’d you get to be king, eh? By exploiting the workers!
5/17/22, a date format which will live in infamy.
A friend of mine set his retirement date for 02-02-02. Unfortunately, they held him back for a couple months, so it became 02-04-02.
For official Quebec forms you must use yyyy-mm-dd and it does make sense since we write numbers in the form most-significant-digit … least significant digit. It sorts easily and is hard to misinterpret since nobody uses yyyy-dd-mm, AFAIK.
German here. I use
dd.mm.yyyy (e.g. 18.05.2022) or dd. MMM yyyy (e.g. 18. Mai 2022) for German language communication (in German the dot marks the day of the month as ordinal)
dd MMM yyyy (e.g. 18 May 2022) for English language communication,
yyyy-mm-dd (e.g. 2022-05-18) for code comments.
I prefer ISO for my own use, especially at work, but I voted for 17-May-2022 because I find it more comfortable for casual reading. With spaces is also okay, but not all glommed together, please.
18.May.2022
Keep it up and I’ll show the violence inherent in the system!
I keep logs of my online writing, and I date them YYMMDD1 so they’re always sequential.
The very mention of “yyyy” in any of these formats is ambiguous, as it refers to the number of a Year Of Our Lord, which varies depending on which Lord you believe to be yours.
One could use the once-common format of presenting the year in Roman numerals (often seen in older Copyright dates), indicating a number, e.g, In The Year MMXXII of Zeus. (They did this in France for a few years of the French Revolution.)
There are no absolute years. Oh wait a minute eon, there is one we could use: In The Year Of The Universe 13,787,000,000. This requires 11-decimal-digit fields for the year (better to us 12 or even 16 lest we run out, Y2K style, again).
For a more anthro approach, we could number the years In The Year Of The Pleistocene or Anthropocene. Some would suggest Year Of The Holocene. Taking up a suggestion I’ve seen elsewhere, we could declare a Year Of The Pyrocene.
Ever get the feeling you wish you’d never asked?
Just a note, the mod that changed this has reverted to M/D/YYYY, the worst of all formats. Too petty to bring up in that particular thread, but please stick to the NN-LLL-YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD formats when adding dates.
Looks like someone has fixed it.
I just made sure the Titles of any thread tagged Breaking News has a readable date format. Some had none, some had mm-dd-yy or yyyy.
My only requirement is using leading zero.
20221006 is the perfect format for computers yyyymmdd.
I still use 10-06-2022 in email. Missing leading zeroes in dates hurts my eyes. It looks so wrong.
2022-10-06 yyyymmdd makes sense in thread titles. That’s standard throughout the computer and data processing world.
M/D/YYYY is the second worst of the formats. The worst one is M/D/YY, with a two-digit year. At my work they still print dates with a two-digit year. Why? Why? I once had a horrible time logging receipts with dates like “01/02/03” … Is that Jan 2nd, 2003 or Feb 3rd, 2001 or Feb 1st, 2003?