Levent

and the years last.
When a person wonders the date , days come first to learn not the year or month ! IMO.

Which one do you need to learn first? The year or the day ?
Do you usually forget the year or the day? :-)) Or the month ?

So, what do you want to see quickly first?
Day, month or year ?

14 / 10 / 2001

If anyone cares !

Fastlane

as 14OCT01 during my externship at the Coast Gaurd and it's much easier to read imho.

Levent

As far as I remember you are a Dentist aren't you ? ( Dr. Fastlane? )

Romeo

the beginning of the month... (kind of like new years for some, writing cheques with the previous year). Unfortunately, I don't think of the month as a number.

Month/Day/Year !!!

TwinTTs

8/10/2001 could mean either August 10th or October 8th, depending on where you're from. For example, in the U.S. people tend to use M/D/Y but in England many people use D/M/Y. This issue caused me endless headaches when I first started working with people overseas.

Normally, I prefer 10 August 2001, which is completely unambiguous.

However, for things like computer file names, I always use 2001-08-10. That way, sorting alphabetically does the same thing as sorting by date. (Computer file dates are unreliable because they can get modified by accident.)

"If anyone cares!" :-)

Levent

Good explaination :-) At least not the year first !

Levent

As you've said , it is also very confusing for the OTHER people overseas like me ! We are both living overseas according to each of us :-)

I must agree what you've said about computers because I don't have much knowledge. But, for example it's very annoying to search backwards in the Forum ; ( 2001-13-05 05:07:9 )

Thanks for caring :-)
Peace.

RTinNYC(again)

not required.

Levent

we already use 18.30 system here in Europe.
Good to remind the time problem too.
Maybe it's time to start a campaign to redesign the time and date writings in the U.S.
We are quiet a number here in the Forum.
;-)

evan

While you're at it, the Metric system would also be a nice change.