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On 11/12/2012 13:27, Eion MacDonald wrote:
The problem with that is unless you live in a country that reads right to left - which are the minority - instinct is to read that as the 20th December, somewhere around King John's time. With countries that read left to right, regardless of how they will be ordered by computers (which I think is the reason for the recommendation, and in that respect ti makes sense), I think it makes much more sense to use increasing intervals for dates as in DD/MM/YYYY. I think we all agree though that MM/DD/YYYY is confusing though?20121211 133610 ISO Long since I have used ISO declining intervals as EU and UN recommended for all dates in computer files and print On 11/12/2012 11:50, Neil Winchurst wrote:On 11/12/12 10:49, Philip Hudson wrote:On 10 Dec, 2012, at 8:43 am, Philip Hudson wrote:UK date ordering FTW! What don't you Yanks understand about orders of magnitude?Does nobody have a word to say in favor of US m-d-y date ordering? Who's going to tell them? --Absolutely not. Start with the medium length of time (month) then go to the shortest (day) then the longest (year). How weird is that? So to me, when they talk of 9/11 as a date, that means the 9th of November. I am proud of our language, one of the richest in the world and so good for literature and poetry. Don't spoil it. Just my opinion, Neil201212111336 ISO Long since I have used ISO declining intervals as EU and UN recommended for all dates in computer files and print. stop at interval that is useful. eionmac
For sequencing computer files into the right order specifically, I do use YYMMDD, but in all other non-IT applications I use DD/MM/YYYY. I never use MM/DD/YYYY.
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