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In Reply to: RE: To all Subjectivists and Objectivists and Those who might be Bijectivists posted by middleground on March 14, 2015 at 03:43:00
So is the American standard of expressing the date with the month first.
Because I deal with customers and colleagues all over the world I tend to express the date as '2015-03-14' and then no one is confused. It sorts really well (when used in file names) and SQL Server likes that form in a query. ;)
Regards,
Geoff
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of time.
if you used language - then there would be no confusion (January 1st or 1st of January).
numbers numb, leaving you looking dumb.
roger wang
backwards in the UK. 14.03 2015 is the correct way, long before the Yanks got started.
Europeans tend to think in terms of day-month-year while our standard is month-day-year. That can lead to confusion when interpreting a date such as 03-01. Is that March first or the third of January?
As an IT guy we always use the Julian date for sorting purposes. Today is: 2457095
Not just Europe. Australia, New Zealand, India, North Africa, South America and a lot of others are D-M-Y.
Interestingly, China is Y-M-D.
US and Belize are M-D-Y. Canadians cannot agree and support all 3. ;)
Regards,
Geoff
Sorta British - sorta American.
I like pounds, feet and inches, mph, and Month/Day/Year simply because it's easier to say "it's March 1st" than "it's the 1st of March" (use the active voice or some such thing). Prefer Celsius - water freezing at 0 degrees makes more sense to me.
Personally I write the month in letters not numbers. The order doesn't matter so much but because countries put them in different orders I want the month spelled Mar/March and this removes any problems.
I find it's the only way to avoid confusion when writing dates.
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