Asrienda Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 When you put the date on your thread title to show the latest update, can you write out or abbreviate the month? Americans do month/day/year for numbers, today being 6/10/15. It makes no sense but we do it. Most other countries are sensible and do day/month/year, making today 10/6/15. Can we all just write June 10 2015 or 10 June 2015 or 10Jun15 or something? Thanks! -a person who is OCD
bahamut2119 Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 Americans do month/day/year for numbers, today being 6/10/15. It makes no sense but we do it. Thats not true depends on how you're taught and well if you ever serve in the military you'll swap to 10June15 i've been out for a decade and that's still how i always do it.
Lesaronno Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 Alternatively, instead of writing out the month, modders could switch to the year/month/day format. I see a couple of mods use it, like Zaz Animation pack for example. It's almost universally understood that 2015/06/10 refers to June 10, so it works pretty well for everyone.
WaxenFigure Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 When you put the date on your thread title to show the latest update, can you write out or abbreviate the month? Americans do month/day/year for numbers, today being 6/10/15. It makes no sense but we do it. Most other countries are sensible and do day/month/year, making today 10/6/15. Can we all just write June 10 2015 or 10 June 2015 or 10Jun15 or something? Thanks! -a person who is OCD Sensible is Year, Month, Day, order (true numeric order). Day, Month, Year, order is only marginally better than Month, Day, Year order. (LOL - OCD? You haven't scratched the surface of that yet).
Asrienda Posted June 11, 2015 Author Posted June 11, 2015 Americans do month/day/year for numbers, today being 6/10/15. It makes no sense but we do it. Thats not true depends on how you're taught and well if you ever serve in the military you'll swap to 10June15 i've been out for a decade and that's still how i always do it. Your formatting is incorrect. If you write out June, you have to write out 2015. It's either 10Jun15 or 10June2015. When you put the date on your thread title to show the latest update, can you write out or abbreviate the month? Americans do month/day/year for numbers, today being 6/10/15. It makes no sense but we do it. Most other countries are sensible and do day/month/year, making today 10/6/15. Can we all just write June 10 2015 or 10 June 2015 or 10Jun15 or something? Thanks! -a person who is OCD Sensible is Year, Month, Day, order (true numeric order). Day, Month, Year, order is only marginally better than Month, Day, Year order. (LOL - OCD? You haven't scratched the surface of that yet). Yeah, sensible would be year, month, day. But I've seen people write year, day, month too. Because 'Murrica. Writing out the month is the best way!
nooblet123 Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 -a person who is OCD | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Asrienda Posted June 11, 2015 Author Posted June 11, 2015 -a person who is OCD | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cdo.jpg That was my facebook cover photo for a long time!
Content Consumer Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 It's either 10Jun15 or 10June2015. Suppose you're trying to say the Tenth of June, 2015... you could write 10Jun15 or 15Jun10 Ambiguity! LINK
Asrienda Posted June 11, 2015 Author Posted June 11, 2015 It's either 10Jun15 or 10June2015.Suppose you're trying to say the Tenth of June, 2015... you could write10Jun15 or 15Jun10 Ambiguity! LINK In the context of date format in the US Military it's day month year though.
AthelstanDied Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 Problem has been solved in the past, see ISO 8601 I also recommend the XKCD comic about that topic
Content Consumer Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 Problem has been solved in the past, see ISO 8601 I also recommend the XKCD comic about that topic That's all well and good, but then there's also this.
Asrienda Posted June 11, 2015 Author Posted June 11, 2015 Let's just write everything out in full English. SexLab SexLovers HDT-PE-SMP TBBP UUNP v0.9.1.3a (The tenth day of January in the year of our lord two thousand fifteen.) ... or I guess you could write: SexLab SexLovers HDT-PE-SMP TBBP UUNP v0.9.1.3a (The tenth day of January of the two thousand fifteenth year of the common era.)
Content Consumer Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 SexLab SexLovers HDT-PE-SMP TBBP UUNP v0.9.1.3a THIS is in COMMON ENGLISH?
AthelstanDied Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 Problem has been solved in the past, see ISO 8601 I also recommend the XKCD comic about that topic That's all well and good, but then there's also this. Touche! But IMHO in the internets, there aren't so many standards for DateTime, i only know of 2 that are wide spread: ISO 8601 for everything in HTTP bodies like JSON or XML and RFC 2616 for HTTP headers, buts that has historical reasons. In the end, it does not matter WHAT standard you use, its important that everybody involved uses the SAME. So, stick to mainstream and your clients won't have to write custom implementations just to parse a fukkn date string.
Sailing Rebel Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 As a programmer I will always use unequivocal big-endian numeric dates. I.e. ISO 8601. "Y-m-d", learn to love it. The fact that the sort-defying d/m/Y and the collective madness of m/d/Y are so easy to confused demonstrates that neither of them are adequate. Using month names is fine in titles and descriptions but dates used in files names should always be numeric Y-m-d.
RDKateran Posted June 12, 2015 Posted June 12, 2015 I don't care how they abbreviate the date on it, via American way or any other way... so long as they do abbreviate it in a proper manner. It's annoying to try and decipher what date it was when it's all squashed together as one big number, like 20081124 or something like that.
srayesmanll Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 How about we just use the number of milliseconds from Jan 1, 1970? There, problem solved...
Content Consumer Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 Whatever we do, we must include all four digits for the year, not just two, or future generations will have to deal with the "y3k crisis."
spoonsinger Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 Re: -"Y3K crisis" Got that thought about. Lets go Mayan. Loads of years left on that calendar. (I.e. today is 13.02.9.5). Absolutely no way that can be misunderstood and it's lore friendly(*). (*) Well not the last bit - or for that matter the first bit.
Sybian Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 has nothing to do with how you are taught, I need to file paperwork everyday for my job going to the government office, their files are in triplicate and the dates on files 1 2 and 3 and as follows. month/day/year, year/month/day and day/month/year. mixing any of them up results in a very angry unionized government employing calling me up and bitching me out for 20 minutes. Sooo yeah..... >.> Its a losing battle. I'm ocd too.
Asrienda Posted June 14, 2015 Author Posted June 14, 2015 has nothing to do with how you are taught, I need to file paperwork everyday for my job going to the government office, their files are in triplicate and the dates on files 1 2 and 3 and as follows. month/day/year, year/month/day and day/month/year. mixing any of them up results in a very angry unionized government employing calling me up and bitching me out for 20 minutes. Sooo yeah..... >.> Its a losing battle. I'm ocd too. Wow. That sucks.
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