What is your date format ??

Dan C

Dan C

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Reason I'm asking is if you head over to the latest speedtest comp, u will see most people are on American format .. i.e. MM-dd-yyyy

Or is it my browser ? or just the application ? Or even worst , my sanity :D
 
US is usually MM/DD/YYYY
UK is usually DD/MM/YYYY

In SA, both are acceptable.

The UK format makes more sense to me, but anyway.
 
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The South Africa settings in windows defaults to yyyy/MM/dd. I always change it to the UK format as above.
 
I prefer the UK format, but am used to the US one as I have dealt with US companies in the past. Just need to make sure you use each one in the right context, can create confusion otherwise, especially when dates are valid in both formats eg. 5/2/2013! :D

B
 
This is one of my biggest bugbears - hate anything other than:
DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY/MM/DD
 
DD/MM/YY (every forum i am registered to, i try to change it to that :p) or GTFO :) but i am also used to the US one.
 
DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY can cause huge confusion. Far better to use YYYY/MM/DD.
 
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I only use DDMMYY unless forced to do otherwise. The americans and their MM first. Why do they always need to be different.
There is a reason why it should be DDMMYY, because days tick faster than months.
Where is a facepalm when I need one.
 
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These god damn americans with their dates and the aussies with their cricket scoring!
 
It's a wonder Americans don't have their times set as HH:ss:mm :D
 
dd/mm/yyyy 24:00

This is the only standard I stick to and also have large influence on all of our CRM and ERP systems.
 
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