23/09/10 or 09/23/10? (or even 10/09/23)

[Deleted]

Where I live, it is common to type day/month/year. Yet, I've noticed that in many places, the order used is month/day/year.

While I think day/month/year or even year/month/day make more sense (each one is a subset/parent of the previous), I'd like to see arguments in favor of month/day/year.

So... discuss!

EDIT: If you hate the short version and use <Month> <Day>th of <Year> or any other variation, vote on the last option too, it's there only to show that you hate the shortened and like it to be all written.

[Sean]

Day, month, year.

Sorted in how much it changes... Makes sence

[qooqǝɯɐƃ]

I write it in MM/DD/YYYY format because that's how I say it out loud -- Sep 23 2010. And I believe this is the American format, which may be why it seems common. I think DD/MM/YYYY is the European/Commonwealth format... Not sure though.

[Phat]

its a bit like driving on whichever side of the road. Of course, I grew up driving on the right side of the road and everyone knows thats the correct way!

[Breepop]

They're all correct. It just depends on where you live. This can't and shouldn't be an argument. An argument needs to have an issue that is contended and can be backed up by hard evidence and facts, not opinion. Anyone who tries to argue that their way of writing the date (or anything equally as trivial) is better than some other way is ethnocentric, and they should just...stop. It's all about perception.

but k.

[RandiKthxxx]

Sept 23, 2010 15:36:47 GMT -5 Breepop said:

They're all correct. It just depends on where you live. This can't and shouldn't be an argument. An argument needs to have an issue that is contended and can be backed up by hard evidence and facts, not opinion. Anyone who tries to argue that their way of writing the date (or anything equally as trivial) is better than some other way is ethnocentric, and they should just...stop. It's all about perception.

but k.

[Deleted]

Sept 23, 2010 15:36:47 GMT -5 Breepop said:

They're all correct. It just depends on where you live. This can't and shouldn't be an argument. An argument needs to have an issue that is contended and can be backed up by hard evidence and facts, not opinion. Anyone who tries to argue that their way of writing the date (or anything equally as trivial) is better than some other way is ethnocentric, and they should just...stop. It's all about perception.

but k.

Chill out. I posted this on polls, didn't I? This is the same kind of poll as the one I did for knowing when each one found out that Santa doesn't exist. In here the difference is that I'm trying to make people come up with arguments to defend one or another. It's a way to kill time... lets just hope the cops don't find out who murdered it ;D

[Breepop]

You made it seem like you were a lot more serious about it in the first post, tbh. Therefore I gave a serious response.

[Nakor]

I hate both systems purely because of the lack of a universal standard. I stick with Sept 23, 2010. In a place with many cultures mixed together, like UBC where I'm attending school, it's impossible to tell out of context which a person meant if they write something like 10/11/10. They could be from a European culture and mean Nov 10, 2010, or they could be from a more North American culture and mean Oct 11, 2010. So it just makes more sense to ensure that it's obvious.

[earth]

over in pr we do day/month/year. but i think that's just in spanish in general.

[SwimFellow]

10/10/10. It doesn't work for that does it? 5/6/07 = May 6th 2007

[austkyzor]

Way I learned it (and thus, the way I do it) is yy/mm/dd - but not quite.

I always write it yyyy-mm-dd, so, for today's day, I'd write it 2010-10-16

[landostarchaser]

In school (I live in Florida) they have always taught me to do it mm/dd/yy
So today, putting the date on my paper would be: 10-16-10

[onlybythenight213]

I always write it as Oct. 16, 2010 so there would be less confusion of which number is which.

[Flags_Forever]

I prefer it written out. I just think it looks nicer, and avoids confusion.