i agree, and i would prefer the dd/mm/yy format. (not because thats the one i use but because imho its the most logical - or even better yyyy/mm/dd - hh*:mm:ss *0-24

same for the metric system btw.

That is the best way as its increments are all decreasing in degrees of magnitude. Let's do this!

24NOV09

I think we should use epoch format.

Right now its 1259107545.

Oh come on, there's nothing better then saying "Stardate: XXXXX.X" in a British accent... lets get it done.

24 Nov 2009. No Confusion here

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This is one of my pet peeves as well. I agree with the logically incrementing version that is used in most places in the world except the US. Also hate how Excel refuses to play by the non-US rules and makes it very difficult to format dates in the non-US way.

DD/MM/YYYY makes sense as the units are in order of increasing size, but YYYY/MM/DD makes even more sense because then you can continue the trend with the time...

YYYY/MM/DD hh:mm:ss...

Also, I find that people know this is the format they're looking at when they see the year first. 2010/01/10 would not be confused for October 1st whereas you have to guess whether 10/01/2010 is US or Euro format.

I usually take slashes as separators as an indicator that it is in the US format (mm/dd/yyyy). I guess it makes enough sense for americans to put it in that order, since you say "October 1st, 2009" in english.

Stardate... uhh.. November 25th.

dd/mm/yy is the right way. or like paul says, decreasing order yyyy/mm/dd/minutes/sec(...)

So I did a bit of searching and I guess the government uses yyyy/mm/dd which does sound correct when you append a time do it, it's nice and sequential. I do, however, understand why other countries use dd/mm/yyyy, because that's how they would speak it. Instead of saying October 1st, they would say the 1st of October. This way ALSO makes more sense then the mm/dd/yyyy because there's an order to it. So I guess this will never be fixed

ISO 8601

Some standards on the issue

Oh and also, it looks like only the US uses mm/dd/yyyy. Why do we have to be such fucking cowboys all of the time?

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This way ALSO makes more sense then the mm/dd/yyyy because there's an order to it.


Makes more sense THAN.

26NOV09 is easy to read and process. Writing the date as a series of numbers takes a moment for your brain to figure out which pattern is being used: 091126, 261109, 112609. Delimiting them helps, but seriously is there a better way to write the date than 26NOV09.

When I'm coding database stuff, year/month/day seems pretty standard, especially for stuff that's intended for both foreign (ex US) and domestic markets.

The only problem with 26NOV09 is that it's English-centric.

^Yeah. True. I suppose I only speak English and to English speaking people, so that works out pretty well for me.

I agree that we should go YYYY/MM/DD and even extend that to HH:MM:SS if needed.

Maybe even do without the slashes in the date format.

It just makes sense from a programmer's point of view, and with the maturation and growth of the internet, a global, standardized format would be a good idea.

Also, after more thought, the bigger problem with 26NOV09 is when it says 10NOV09. Without knowing what the original "encoding" was, there's no way to eye-ball it and guess which number is day and which is year.