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11/16 is very clear to someone in the U.S., and very confusing to anyone else: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by tinkerdol 13y ago
11/16 is very clear to someone in the U.S., and very confusing to anyone else:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1179/ http://xkcd.com/1179/
edit: actually, according to my first link, Belize, Canadian newspapers, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Philippines (when speaking English, although not Filipino), and Palau all also use the month- day- year date system. TIL!
- graeme 13y agoWe Canadians proudly have no consistency. I've seen all of the following used: 13/11/16, 11/16/13, 16/11/13 And by proudly, I mean we don't even realize the rest of the world handles this marginally better. Even official forms have no consistency.... As it is, I didn't interpret 11/16 as being a date. I thought they needed five out of 16 interviews.
- imrehg 13y agoHungarian checkin in, 11/16 = Nov 16 very clearly, as for those others in the "big endian" areas, though at least in full form it's 2013/11/16, not the (to me crazy) 11/16/2013