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Yes please! I'm sick and tired of people arguing that you put the month first because "That's how you say it".
by run4yourlives 15y ago
Yes please!
I'm sick and tired of people arguing that you put the month first because "That's how you say it".
- hugh3 15y agoOf course you only say it that way in America. Today is the Thirteenth of May, not May 13. I prefer dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy/mm/dd though, just to keep what is usually the most important information at the front.
- Pistos2 15y agoI like YYYY-MM-DD for two reasons: 1) Sorting the string representations sorts in time order. 2) It eliminates ambiguity almost completely, because extremely few places use YYYY-DD-MM. The ambiguity of most ##/##/## dates is irritating.
- run4yourlives 15y agodd-mm-yyyy can easily be confused with mm-dd-yyyy. The only format that is obvious is yyyy-mm-dd.
- hugh3 15y agoUntil somebody starts using yyyy-dd-mm and screws everything up. Besides, often when you write dates you leave the year off entirely.
- r00fus 15y agoI prefer how we did it in the military: 13MAY2011. mysql: %d%b%Y No ambiguity, easy to parse and 3-letter month is natural delimiter between day and year numbers.