When people tell me I write the date funny, I ask them how they write the time. No one has yet said anything other than the equivalent of 'hours first, then minutes, then seconds.' I ask if that's because everybody else does it that way, or because that's what makes the most sense. Most people say something like 'how the heck else would you do it?' But when it comes to writing the date, people use one of several notations and will defend it like it was a matter of global significance. To me, year/month/day/hours/minutes/seconds fits together in that order like an odometer (or maybe a chronometer?) What makes sense to you?
The nuns started us out with the MMDDYY but medicine also reinforces that. I think it depends on where you are from as well as some jobs too.
Well, that would depend. In normal course of the day it's Month/Day/Year. Feb. 17, 2006 If I'm saving electronic documents and want them chronological, it's Year/Month/Day and zeroes when there are single digits. 060217. When I am dealing with Europeans....it's Day/Month/Year. So am I multiichrono?
You must be one of those foreign folks. Us ens 'Mericans put it down day month year. I am wondering if I should report you to some one like Dick our VP, he is interested in folk like you. When he says pull I would duck!
I tend to use YYYYMMDD more, because it gives me a better sort when I use it in filenames. In my business I often handle a large number of media files from different sources that I typically need to locate predominantly by time more than anything else. This format has carried over to the rest of my life. The only time I use MMDDYYYY now is when I am writing a check. Just something I remember from 3rd or 4th grade.
this gets interesting when you work with international folks. i pretty much have to write out the month (Feb) rather than use the number. you know, clarity purposes for lab notebooks and such. gotta love science
Yeah, all 3. Last one for sorting, Middle one for looks and First one to seperate without punctuation: 17FEB06.
I've got 24 hour (or military time) clock on my computers. I just convert in my head. For friends, relatives, students and faculty I use the regular AM and PM time. It's 21:39:53 now. Personally, I think the entire world would be more precise if we all used the 24 hour clock and the YYMMDD system for everything...but that ain't gonna happen. Look how long it's been and this country still hasn't gone metric. (BTW....I don't use metric unless physically forced to do so.)
I handwrite mm/dd/yyyy such as 06/19/2006 but when I'm storing multiple versions of a file on my computer, I use YYYY-MM-DD so that they automatically sort chronologically.
