jim77742 Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 I notice that all dates are in the form MM/DD/YYYY. This is a format that is used in the US, but most of the rest of the world uses DD/MM/YYYY. This can be very confusing, for example when I read 12/04/2005 I see it as 12th of April 2005, when it actually represents on this site December the 4th 2005. There are two possible solutions. 1) Allow an optional date format in your personal preferences. Just like you have for metric/imperial. 2) Follow the International Standards Organisation (ISO) date format and do all dates as 2005/12/04 which is universally understood as 4th of December 2005. Regards, Jim Palfreyman jim77742 Quote Link to comment
Dale_Lynn Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 I notice that all dates are in the form MM/DD/YYYY. This is a format that is used in the US, but most of the rest of the world uses DD/MM/YYYY. This can be very confusing, for example when I read 12/04/2005 I see it as 12th of April 2005, when it actually represents on this site December the 4th 2005. There are two possible solutions. 1) Allow an optional date format in your personal preferences. Just like you have for metric/imperial. 2) Follow the International Standards Organisation (ISO) date format and do all dates as 2005/12/04 which is universally understood as 4th of December 2005. Regards, Jim Palfreyman jim77742 Wouldn't 2005/12/04 actually be "2005, December, 4th".... Dale Quote Link to comment
+PDOP's Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 Previous thread on this subject. Quote Link to comment
+ParrotRobAndCeCe Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 I notice that all dates are in the form MM/DD/YYYY. This is a format that is used in the US, but most of the rest of the world uses DD/MM/YYYY. This can be very confusing, for example when I read 12/04/2005 I see it as 12th of April 2005, when it actually represents on this site December the 4th 2005. There are two possible solutions. 1) Allow an optional date format in your personal preferences. Just like you have for metric/imperial. 2) Follow the International Standards Organisation (ISO) date format and do all dates as 2005/12/04 which is universally understood as 4th of December 2005. Regards, Jim Palfreyman jim77742 Argued to death already over in the website forum, Taz. Quote Link to comment
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