On May 22, 2010, at 12:07 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 8:00 PM +0100 5/21/10, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
What sort of format is that date, English or American?
For example: dd-mm-yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy?
Thanks,
Ash
Ash:
I don't think it's called "English" or "American" -- as Churchill
once said "We are separated by a common language." Perhaps "British
English" vs "American English", but I don't think that is correct
either.
While America typically uses mm-dd-yyyy the *majority* of the rest
of the world uses dd-mm-yyyy -- which I think is far more logical.
However, there are regions who commonly use yyyy-mm-dd (i.e., China,
Japan), which is also logical.
It seems that America is the only region who mixes the most-
significant-digit order (big, little, and middle endians). I don't
understand why it came about, perhaps it was one of those American
Almanac articles like the one that claimed using double negatives
was poor grammar which caused a significant changer in the language.
In any event, in all cases where it's my choice, I use the dd-mm-
yyyy format.
Cheers,
tedd
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I blame Microsoft!
Personally I prefer to use yyyy-mm-dd since that is the format for
many DBs
Bastien
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