Originally Posted By: 2010_FX4
Originally Posted By: Astro14
But only true in the US, where we have the uncommon convention of month/day/year. The rest of the world uses day/month/year...so,this day could never happen under their date convention...
I thought most of the rest of the world used the ISO 8601 date standard which is YYYY-MM-DD, but your post made me curious and so a cursory search found this: --
Date Format By Country
DD-MM-YYYY covers at least half of the globe (number of people using it) with YYYY-MM-DD coming second (all of China). It would be nice to have a single standard so that (at least in the US) you do not have to guess which it is (unless the DD is more than 12). DD-MM-YYYY should be DD-MMM-YYYY and it would eliminate the guess work for small day and month digits - e.g. is 02-03-2015 February 2, 2015 or March 2, 2015? Adding the third "M" and thereby using 02 March 2015 leaves no room for guesswork.
The global headquarters for our company is in Europe and we struggled with this scenario in the US operations for years until at the turn of the century we adopted the ISO 8601 format internally making it easier for "rebels" like the US to be able to clearly know what the numbers of the date represent. Of course, if all of your daily work remains in the US, all of this is irrelevant.
Few years ago i started using yyyy-mm-dd for signing most documents. I revert to mm-dd-yy onlydue to space limitations on some things.