Date format

[DanaLea]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
Have you considered how you would abbreviate DanaLea?

Dana is fine....

but what is DL? I see download when I see DL.

-dana

[Tuberski]

Double Login, It's not allowed to have 2 or more login names.

[Skanky Burns]

Although very common for some people to start new logins for trolling purposes.

*cough*AH*cough*

[moomin]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
If you do this, could you also implement the ISO standard YYMMDD format?

Snappy & I agree. The End is Nigh.

Also, when you're at it, could you please officially endorse SI as the only legitimate Apolyton metric? Five week insta-ban for anybody using medieval units, be they brits or merkins.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by ixnay37
Which is why I want 25-Oct-2002. It's a nice compromise that isn't confusing.

Yes, I completely agree, and it is remarkably easy for Markos to do. I did this on CGN and it took me about 2 minutes...and you can have the long form of month if you are really picky too

[Switch]

Originally posted by moomin


Snappy & I agree. The End is Nigh.

Also, when you're at it, could you please officially endorse SI as the only legitimate Apolyton metric? Five week insta-ban for anybody using medieval units, be they brits or merkins.

Yeah, I agree!

And it's YY-MM-DD, dashes and all. I never understood the whole mm/dd/yy thing, which could also be confused with dd/mm/yy. I'm glad they came out with an official international standard.

The current location of me in the fourth dimension is (20)02-10-26 T 19:33

[aaglo]

Why do Americans use the mm-dd-yy format?

It is not logical in any way.

Think about it. They year is the largest time indicator, and the day is the smallest time indicator. The month goes in between. Now why on earth anyone would want to place the middle-size in front?!?

If something is 1600,35 meters long, you don't say 600 meters, 35 centimeters and one kilometer - or do you?

And just to avoid mix-ups in the future, I concur the 28-Oct-2002 format.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by aaglo
Why do Americans use the mm-dd-yy format?

It is not logical in any way.

With things like this it is not logic that dictates. As a conjecture it might be that Americans are more likely to say "October the twenty-eighth" than "The twenty-eighth of October". Hence the order is written how it is spoken.

[Lefty Scaevola]

You think you got it bad between mm/dd/yy and dd/mm/yy? I am a 2532 year old Roman. I am used to naming the years by the names of consuls (difficult since there have been any for over a millenia) rather than numbering them. My calandar is a little dirrent, even though I got used that that one by that young puupy C. Iulius Caesar. The clock is so different also. Mine has 12 (expanding and contracting) hour from sunrise to sunset (We did not even number hour at night until we got into thoses state conpiracy things). I cannot for the life of me figure out daylight savings time.

[ixnay]

The reason we have it as mm-dd-yy is because that's usually how it's spoken. "Hey, what day is it?" "Oh, it's October 28th."

[TheStinger]

if every day was 01-01-01 then there wouldn't be a problem

[Dauphin]

We should all be called Bob too.

[Gramphos]

I'm used to the date rormat Year-Month-Day, so this Poly format is bad for me to, but I've learned to live with it. (Even thou there are hacks to vBulletin which allows change of the format.)

[ixnay]

You don't even need a hack; it's a setting in the admin control panel.

[Buck Birdseed]

There are hacks that allow users to set the date format they want (like us swedes want YYMMDD...). IIRC the EU boards have that hack installed...