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homebrew01 SSC Guru Points: 55548 More actions · Answer 1

" ... Only the International (yyyy-mm-dd) is self-describing and explicit. So it would be cool if you would use it. ... "

I agree ....

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65142 More actions · Answer 2

Only the International (yyyy-mm-dd) is self-describing and explicit

Only if you know the displayed value is in that format

What about 2007-04-01 is it yyyy-mm-dd or yyyy-dd-mm ?

Showing dates in yyyy-mm-dd format is only useful if you tell the person looking at it what the format is (other than self describing dates eg 2007-03-31)

Why not show dates as dd-mmm-yyyy no ambiguity there

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K. Brian Kelley SSC Guru Points: 114642 More actions · Answer 3

True, I got used to that format in college (military college) and in the military. We used it because it wasn't ambiguous. 03 May 2007 won't ever be confused with 05 March 2007.

K. Brian Kelley
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736255 More actions · Answer 4

Sorry, my US brain keeps getting confused with 27/03/2007? I guess the Month name makes some sense. I'll check on where we are with this.

homebrew01 SSC Guru Points: 55548 More actions · Answer 5

"... What about 2007-04-01 is it yyyy-mm-dd or yyyy-dd-mm ? ..."

Does anyone actually use YYYY-DD-MM ?? Defeats the purpose of having YYYY first

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736255 More actions · Answer 6

I use yyyymmdd for filenames. Easier to sort things

I think the dd-mmm-yyyy where mmm is Jan, Feb, etc. makes sense.

As of now, we're back on US time. We'll look at the other setting and debate it.

Michael Valentine Jones SSC Guru Points: 64818 More actions · Answer 7

If they do, it must not be very common. YYYY-MM-DD is the ISO standard.

select
 dateformat,
 count(*)
from
 master.dbo.syslanguages
group by
 dateformat

dateformat             
---------- ----------- 
dmy        23
mdy        1
ymd        9

(3 row(s) affected)

Sarah Dutkiewicz SSCommitted Points: 1870 More actions · Answer 8

Any chance of the forums vendor updating their application to accept multiple formats and give users their own personal preference? Many forums nowadays do support various date formats, catering to their international audience.

For example, I post on a forum that uses the SMF software. My choices on date format include:

Month Day, Year, HH:MM:SS a/pm

Month Day, Year, HH:MM:SS (army time)

YYYY-MM-DD, HH:MM:SS

DD Month YYYY, HH:MM:SS

DD-MM-YYYY, HH:MM:SS

Michael T SSC-Addicted Points: 479 More actions · Answer 9

Excellent suggestion, Sarah,

I post to some forums which allow me to change the date format mask in my profiles. This is done via a text field so I have complete control over what dates look like there.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736255 More actions · Answer 10

We're rewriting and the developers have this thread in their list of stuff to do, so we'll see. At the very least we'll let you set your timezone