Dates for Television Shows

There are a number of popular shows that air on television that frequently make it on the sift and are region blocked --notably, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. Since the commentary of the hosts and content of the show is news based, it might be handy for those in region-blocked countries (Canada, other countries...) if the date of the episode was included in their descriptions for others to find in mirrored sites of country specific sites like thecomedynetwork.ca or other sources.

Though posting dates are always available, I thought this courtesy might also be useful with many news videos as well.

Thoughts?
davidraine says...

My vote is for (yyyy.mm.dd) -- While Americans have a tendency for mm/dd/yy while others use dd/mm/yy, to my knowledge everyone uses yyyy/mm/dd when the year is up front. Plus, if for any reason these titles end up being sorted by date, having them in y.m.d format ensures they will sort correctly. Using '.' instead of '/' as the separator is a stylistic choice; when I originally took French I was told that while '/' is used as a date separator here, '.' is used overseas. I don't know how true that is, but I typically use '.' for any international format as a result.

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