day/month

[clarksonisawilly]

It's a little thing, but it pisses me right off. Is not the traditional British format of indicating a date day/month, and the yanks go for month/day?

So why the fk do the bbc, and seemingly almost all the media in this once proud country insist using the american composition?

And it's ever so confusing when you are researching dates, and that are expressed in numerical format. 01/08/10. So, is it the first of August, or is it the eighth of January? Once was a time when you could check the publication's point of origin. Now it seems it could be British, but written for the americans. Or vice versa, but most likely not of course.

It winds me up far too much.

[Guffy]

Doesn't make sense either! Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years.. quite logical, so why show a date format with the month first!!

I believe the US military use day/month/year format though!

[bitwrx]

YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS

Tis the only logical way. Most significant number first. Or avoid ambiguity by doing

DD Mon YYYY

[bob1179]

I work for a US company. I am forever confusing them when write dates down in paperwork or in emails.

[Riknos]

Although it should be D/M/Y.. At work for a lot of our reports we file them M/D/Y, purely as it makes it easier to search for the latest report, as once you've found the month you can see the day.. But that's the only real reason IMO..

[marshalla]

ISO 8601 : http://www.iso.org/iso/date_and_time_format

[mrmr96]

Riknos said:

Although it should be D/M/Y.. At work for a lot of our reports we file them M/D/Y, purely as it makes it easier to search for the latest report, as once you've found the month you can see the day.. But that's the only real reason IMO..

We do a similar, but more sensible thing: yyyy-mm-dd