Scilly_guy wrote:A word on date formats, there are three commonly used formats and they should be distinguished by the delimiter. For example:
12/13/14 is the 13th of December 2014 (American)
12-13-14 is the 12th of some imaginary month 2014 (European)
12.13.14 is the 14th of some imaginary month 2012 (Asian)
Although in these examples I have omitted the 2000 to exaggerate the confusion that can be caused, the year should be YYYY to avoid such confusion.
you need to get your information right. In the US, 13 Dec 2014, 12-13-14, 12/13/14, and 13/12/2014 can all be used, and often are. It depends on where you work or grew up, mostly. Two or four digit years are used interchangeably (four digit pretty much only for official documents that will exist for more than a handful of years). Using forward slashes has become most common, however I work in retail and food service mostly and still see people write dates both dashed and slashed. We're not talking about the metric system here, but about written language, especially English.
loftar wrote:Or you just use the ISO format, 2014-12-13, and there will be no ambiguity whatsoever.
We need to get everyone to adopt the metric system first.