How do you write the date?

[Revi]

D/M/Y.

Isn't M/D/Y just an American thing?

[coprax]

I prefer Day-Month-Year for the logical progression value of that format but use the more accepted American MM-DD-YY for most documents so I don't confuse stupid people.

you would confuse the shit out of me the way you do it now
because dashes don't tell me what format you are using!

If you use "." I assume you use the day/month format, when you use "/" I assume you write it the american way.

But dashes make it even worse.

[Mifuyne]

Same in Finland. This question pretty much asks where you are from. Of course the american system is rather weird though considering it goes medium - small - large rather than the other systems used in East Asia(yyyy年mm月dd日) and rest of the world (dd.mm.yyyy)

All I know is that Japan reads from bottom to top/right to left,
If other Asian countries do the same, it's pretty logical.

[Cosmic Janitor]

International standard date: 2016-07-06

I got tired of having to clarify with customers, suppliers and colleagues from around the globe, this way you can also easier label machine sortable files etc.

[Forgettable]

How do I write the date? The correct way.

Americans do everything backwards.

[Gamdwelf]

6 Julie 2016.

[Zandro]

mm/dd/yyyy today would be 07/06/2016

[A dot Ham]

I don't understand why Americans use M/D/Y, it's not the most logical.

For the same reason we are reluctant to get on metric system.

It just makes too much damn sense.

[ranzino]

6 Julie 2016.

ok, a full written month is of course the best way to clarify your intensions.

[Kalis]

[Cæli]

Always found month/day/year illogical compared to day/month/year.

day < month < year

At least year-month-day has a kind of logic : P I think there'll be one single date format in the future.

[Chetnik]

Who the hell voted "other" and what the hell does that mean? What other way is there to write the date other than the ones already in the list?

[luc54]

This tells me Canadians can't make up their mind and try to please everyone. Fecking pussies.

[Spl4sh3r]

Ops picked wrong. I picked day/month/year and I tend to do the year/month/day.

[Rixis]

Properly.

[Jotaux]

dd-mm-yyyy

I understand why some use mm-dd-yyyy though. It's just the same order that they say it in unless its the 4th of July, which makes no sense to take your most patriotic day and not use the american way.

[Deleted]

dd.mm.yyyy, or, "6. heinäkuuta" in which "heinä" is the name of the month, "-kuu" is the word for month, and "-ta" means of. Also, "heinäkuun 6.", which would mean the same thing.

We don't use dashes except in computer language (ISO date standard), and slashes are just dumb. Except the one who used to be in GnR.

[Deleted]

Wish people would switch to the far superior yyyy-mm-dd, awesome for file naming conventions, as a Brit I use dd mm yyyy mostly though.

[Deleted]

7/6/2016 actually means seven divided by six divided by 2016.

[coprax]

and 3/4 of africa don't write at all?