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No, I'm not talking about "you just met a girl/guy, you'd like to date" 
I'm talking about the differences in how dates are written:
In Denmark (and other European countries), we write our dates with dd-mm-yyyy (d = day, m = month... you get the idea
), while in America (and probably other countries too), they write their dates in some completely different way... I think it's yyyy-mm-dd, but sometimes I also see it like mm-dd-yyyy...
This has annoyed me pretty much lately, since I'm doing my first examen project for school, where we should do the programming our-self. One of the worst hurdles we had, was this date thing... it was pretty diffecult to get it working, because we were programming our program on an english OS, with english apps and such, but the program should be designed to danes (meaning: we should be sure to use danish dates). It took us ages to find some way, to make this program work... though I believe this program wont work on danish computers, because we wrote the program to english computers... (None of our teachers knew how to get rid of this 'date' problem...)
I think this is pretty annoying, and believe it should be changed. I see a problem, when talking to Americans, and talking about e.g. "let's talk again this date", and then they give some date e.g. "05-04-03"... I know I'm not always aware of this problem, so I could easily see this as April 5th 2003, while others see this as May 4th 2003
Should this be changed? If so: Who should change?
I'm talking about the differences in how dates are written:
In Denmark (and other European countries), we write our dates with dd-mm-yyyy (d = day, m = month... you get the idea
), while in America (and probably other countries too), they write their dates in some completely different way... I think it's yyyy-mm-dd, but sometimes I also see it like mm-dd-yyyy...This has annoyed me pretty much lately, since I'm doing my first examen project for school, where we should do the programming our-self. One of the worst hurdles we had, was this date thing... it was pretty diffecult to get it working, because we were programming our program on an english OS, with english apps and such, but the program should be designed to danes (meaning: we should be sure to use danish dates). It took us ages to find some way, to make this program work... though I believe this program wont work on danish computers, because we wrote the program to english computers... (None of our teachers knew how to get rid of this 'date' problem...)
I think this is pretty annoying, and believe it should be changed. I see a problem, when talking to Americans, and talking about e.g. "let's talk again this date", and then they give some date e.g. "05-04-03"... I know I'm not always aware of this problem, so I could easily see this as April 5th 2003, while others see this as May 4th 2003
Should this be changed? If so: Who should change?
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