It's a Date!

[cpsings4him]

Poll The Really Super Important Date Formatting Poll of the Year Of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twelve

Comments

[mofoburrell]

I follow the ISO 8601 standard for all my dates. yyyy-mm-dd or bust.

[tma]

I also like it when busts form a part of my dates.

[redaxe]

Exactly what I came here to say. Except the bust part -- that's better than what I had in mind.

[gruberman]

I was going to agitate for yyyy-mm-dd, too!

MM/DD/YYYY is a horrific, American abomination that bdoing probably uses, because he doesn't use the capslock key.

[doom_on_yr_face]

DD/MM/YYYY clearly makes the most sense - smallest unit first, followed by a group of those units, and then the largest Unit of Units. Unit.

[cpsings4him]

lol unit

[saturnfall]

The US Federal Government uses YYYY-MM-DD, as does any good unix sysadmin. So do I.

[mofoburrell]

The burning question for sysadmins is, at what point do you switch to yyyyy-mm-dd (with a leading zero) to ensure everything still sorts ascii-fetically in the future? :P

[cpsings4him]

Now here's a forward thinking individual!

[saturnfall]

When we start using the new calendar based on the launch time of the first ship of the diaspora. Obviously.

[joospjos]

I'm being a slow European, but why would it be easier to confuse the dates with the months when writing DD/MM/YYYY?

[cpsings4him]

Because any day of the month less than 12 could be confused (by us simple minded Americans) as the month.

[yuriko]

Wouldn't that also be the case with the first option? =P

[cpsings4him]

Not in Amurka! :p

[crimson_mask]

At the job I've had for about 5 years now I constantly have to date/initial documents. We use the date format of DD-MMM-YYYY (or just YY) and it's gotten so that is the only way I write out dates now unless I'm filling in a form that doesn't allow it.