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Of 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 usua
by hugh3 15y ago
Of 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.