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Date Format Question
« on: Mar 16th, 2006, 11:44am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Is it a safe bet that most Americans understand the date format "2006-03-10"? If not, what is the best option?
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Re: Date Format Question
« Reply #1 on: Mar 16th, 2006, 1:19pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
I'm guessing Americans would understand that, but being from the UK, the dates for ruleset updates etc are backwards for me, here we do dd/mm/yyyy rather than mm/dd/yyyy  or yyyy/mm/dd
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Re: Date Format Question
« Reply #2 on: Mar 16th, 2006, 2:24pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
 As  Matt_Day  : " dd/mm/yyyy  "  , in  a  crescent  order .
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Re: Date Format Question
« Reply #3 on: Mar 16th, 2006, 2:40pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
While I have a slight perference of yyyy-mm-dd as being universally understandable, it would seem that using the users regional settings to display the date might be best.
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Re: Date Format Question
« Reply #4 on: Mar 16th, 2006, 4:25pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
The standard format in the US of A is mm-day-year...usually as March 16, 2006.  I have found that almost any country national understands  16-Mar-2006.  
 
Having the month, day, year as all numbers in almost any order leads to confusion somewhere (except if the year is 2006 instead of 06).
 
Just my experience from having worked as an American for a foreign company doing global business.   Wink
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Re: Date Format Question
« Reply #5 on: Mar 17th, 2006, 3:29am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
on Mar 16th, 2006, 4:25pm, siliconman01 wrote:
The standard format in the US of A is mm-day-year...usually as March 16, 2006.  I have found that almost any country national understands  16-Mar-2006.  
 
Having the month, day, year as all numbers in almost any order leads to confusion somewhere (except if the year is 2006 instead of 06).
 
Just my experience from having worked as an American for a foreign company doing global business.   Wink

 
 
Hehe yea, if I say for example 16-Mar-2006 written as 03/16/2006, on first glance I always say to myself, is that a typo?  There aren't 16 months Tongue
 
I guess the confusion arises when you have say, 04/03/2006, is that 4th March (it would be here in the UK) or the 3rd of April as in the USA...?
 
Oooh the complications  Roll Eyes
 
Edit: early morning grammar mistakes  Roll Eyes
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Re: Date Format Question
« Reply #6 on: Mar 17th, 2006, 4:21am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
I do feel that most Americans become confused with most anything other than the mm-day-year arrangement.  
 
That's why I recommend something like 16-Mar-2006 or 2006-Mar-16.  Using the alphanumeric name of the month eliminates all confusion for which one is the month and the yyyy instead of yy is very clear.   Wink
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Re: Date Format Question
« Reply #7 on: Mar 17th, 2006, 6:47am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Grin I probably drive the Europeans crazy at Wilders; I am the Updates Forum Helper and all our dates are American format!  Smiley  [mm-dd-yyyy] -- j/k -- but Tom's suggestion is a reasonable compromise.
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