How do you write the date?

[Deleted]

ISO_8601 ftw!. Year-month-day flows nicely from the most significant/biggest unit to least significant, like a number.

But, in everyday use, day month year, just because it's the normal way here. Although it flows from least significant to most significant, at least it's all in one direction; month-day-year is the worst, with its medium sized unit first, then smallest then biggest - feels so random to me.

[Aeula]

The Sixth of July Twenty Sixteen.

[Deleted]

07/06/16

/10char

[ThrashMetalFtw]

DD/MM/YYYY here. Cut the millenium and century decimals if I'm feeling lazy.

[Jonnusthegreat]

Always mm/dd/yy.

It's one of my biggest pet peeves when people write any of the following:

m/d/yy, m/dd/yy, mm/d/yy

YOU PUT IN THE 0 FOR THE YEAR, PUT IT IN FOR THE MONTH AND THE DAY, ASSHOLE!

[Kalis]

YOU PUT IN THE 0 FOR THE YEAR, PUT IT IN FOR THE MONTH AND THE DAY, ASSHOLE!

I would write 1st January 2007 as 1/1/7.

[Jonnusthegreat]

I would write 1st January 2007 as 1/1/7.

I have done that to explain to people why it matters.

[frogger237]

Sure if you have no concept of magnitude or units.

So then you must write your time as seconds then hours?

[Kalis]

I have done that to explain to people why it matters.

It doesn't matter. The month and day are not going to be worse off if you miss a 0 from the front.

[Frozenbeef]

07/06/16

/10char

Are you a day ahead of everyone else?

[Jotaux]

So then you must write your time as seconds then hours?

So what you are arguing for is yyyy-mm-dd? because mm-dd-yyyy is the same as Minutes:Seconds:hours

You can use either an ascending or descending order, either way its not mm/dd/yyyy

[Jonnusthegreat]

It doesn't matter. The month and day are not going to be worse off if you miss a 0 from the front.

Why not? There's no difference.

[Shaiandra]

yymmdd when writing short form; it's soo much easier to sort any list that's labeled that way into chronological order.

When I look through my WoW screenshots for example, I think it would make the most sense if the newest are last, but that's not how it is...

[Kalis]

So then you must write your time as seconds then hours?

No, it is written HH:MM:SS, so it is in reverse order, which is acceptable.

You are advocating something akin to HH:SS:MM, which is just silly.

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Are you a day ahead of everyone else?

A month behind, it is July.

[A Dark Knight]

i use the CORRECT WAY
day-month-year
why americans use the month first is beyond me, people might forget if it is the fifth or sixth today, but no one get confused if its june or july

[The Stormbringer]

I used to do it Day-Month-Year when I was a kid, but since I live in America, that's apparently 'wrong'.

[Tyrianth]

ISO 8601 is the only correct way.

yyyy-mm-dd

[Dezminion]

Dd/mm/yyyy

[Bushtuckrman]

Like most of the world, dd/mm/yy
Americans like to be backwards, just look at the imperial measurement aystem

[The Stormbringer]

i use the CORRECT WAY
day-month-year
why americans use the month first is beyond me, people might forget if it is the fifth or sixth today, but no one get confused if its june or july

Probably because we say it as 'July the Sixth' instead of 'The Sixth of July' more often?