Apr 04 2006
It Should Be DD/MM/YYYY, Not MM/DD/YYYY
While everyone in the American universe is pointing out that tomorrow:
…early Wednesday morning the time and date will be 01-02-03-04-05-06
Sedition.com points out:
No it won’t. It’s not the year 6, jackasses. It’s the year 2006. The time and date will be “1:02:03 4/5/2006.”
The American’s date format, MM/DD/YY, is stupid anyway; the proper way is DD/MM/YY, so the silly oddity doesn’t occur until May: 01-02-03-04-05-2006.
I actually am all for YYYY/MM/DD - like this, alphabetic sorting will yield the same results as date sorting…
Anyway, nice to point out :) Thanks!
For simplicity of sorting file folders, I always go YYYYMMDD. So, I guess under my own rules, the date has long gone. 0102-03-04 05:06
I quite agree but I’m also in favor of metric conversion so no one wants to hear from me on this side of the border.
When writing the date by hand, I always write something like April 5th, 2006, and sometimes April 5/06. I wouldn’t know how to write the date as 04/05/06, because I’d spend too much time counting the months on my fingers. However, I use YYYY/MM/DD to sort photos on my PC, because it’s the only method of numerically writing the date that produces a sequential series — which makes more sense than both DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY.
I spent 5 minutes thinking about all this. Wow.
I was going to jump in with something insightful like: I use yyyymmdd so that my files are conveniently sorted by year-month-day. But EVERYONE beat me to it!
Can’t wait until May 4, at 3:21 am for my next opportunity to beat you all to the punch!
i personally can’t wait till June 6th…. :)
Yeah well we dont go fer none o that newfangled Euro crap like metric dates.
BTW I heard that the reason D-day was chosen as july 6 was so that if there were any snafu regarding the different way US and Brit troops wrote the date it wouldn’t matter.
ahh frig i knew that history degree was worth shit, I wasn’t event taught the right date for the d-day invasions…i was told it was june 6….frig….
yeah…i have always used nano second, to second , to minute, to hour , to day to month to year…..kinda little to big…ahh but i messed up my comma usage didn’t I ….
&%## history degree