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Hi everyone,
As a Canadian, I have to remember the date order that Americans use. Here, some of us tend to use day, month, year. You tend to use month, day, year. I wonder whether anyone else would like year, month, day? 2015-01-07 See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country Then I won’t have to look to see the position of the number bigger 12 to figure out style used! Frances
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Frances,
As a Canadian, I have to remember the date order that Americans use.My favorite take on the subject agrees with your proposal: http://xkcd.com/1179/ -- Shal
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Judy F.
Not me. I am a Month, Day, Year person. If it is possible to choose the format, then I say OK, but not have a firm year/Month/Day. Nope.
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Judy F., SW Florida - USA
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From: Shal Farley [mailto:shal@...] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 2:26 PM To: beta@groups.io Subject: Re: [beta] Dates on Groups.io Frances, > As a Canadian, I have to remember the date order that Americans use. > Here, some of us tend to use day, month, year. You tend to use month, > day, year. > > I wonder whether anyone else would like year, month, day? > 2015-01-07 My favorite take on the subject agrees with your proposal: http://xkcd.com/1179/ -- Shal
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Judy,
If it is possible to choose the format, then I say OK, but not have aThe proposal would be YYYY-MM-DD (hyphens not slashes, two-digit months and days). That is, 2015-01-07 not 2015/1/7. Writing code in the '70s I learned to use YYMMDD (no punctuation), because it sorts properly as either a number or as text. But then Y2K came along... ;-) -- Shal
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Judy F.
I think there will be a lot of unhappy people if this is put into effect and not have the option to change it to the normal standard for those of us that prefer the normal mm/dd/yy/ or mm-dd-yy.
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Thanks Shal. Judy F. SW Florida - USA
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From: Shal Farley [mailto:shal@...] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 9:45 PM To: beta@groups.io Subject: Re: [beta] Dates on Groups.io Judy, > If it is possible to choose the format, then I say OK, but not have a > firm year/Month/Day. The proposal would be YYYY-MM-DD (hyphens not slashes, two-digit months and days). That is, 2015-01-07 not 2015/1/7. Writing code in the '70s I learned to use YYMMDD (no punctuation), because it sorts properly as either a number or as text. But then Y2K came along... ;-) -- Shal
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I am strongly of the opinion that, if possible, it should be selectable by each
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user. I always use day-month-year. If it must be fixed to a single format, then year-month-day is the most logical because it is easily sortable, but few people normally use that format. Jim Fisher
On 7 Jan 2015 at 19:40, J. Faulkner wrote:
Not me. I am a Month, Day, Year person. If it is possible to choose the --
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It's easy enough to make this a user preference option.. Anyone have a good example of a web site that lets users set this preference (ie. which set of date formats should there be)? Thanks, Mark
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Jim Fisher <ejf@...> wrote: I am strongly of the opinion that, if possible, it should be selectable by each
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Linda
Hi Mark,
Here's one:
Discussion of Date
Formats:
Hope that helps,
Linda
From: Mark Fletcher
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 4:26 PM
To: beta@groups.io
Subject: Re: [beta] Dates on Groups.io It's easy enough to make this a user preference option.. Anyone
have a good example of a web site that lets users set this preference (ie. which
set of date formats should there be)?
Thanks,
Mark
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Laurence Taylor
On 07 Jan 2015 18:12, Frances wrote:
Hi everyone,Excellent idea. The US format can be very confusing for dates less than 13! Y-M-D is completely unambiguous. -- rgds LAurence <><
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I don't have an example of a website. But for work, for two years I had to deal with the dates with year first. I thought I would lose my mind because the dates were critically important and I read them wrong almost every time for two years. It was a true nightmare. I have seen the following: Month day year; day month year, year month day; year day month; . Help!! what do you do when you have a day 05 and a month 01 and the year is written as 12? How are you supposed to know if you are looking at day month year or month day year or some other combination? I strictly want the U.S, Month, day, year. For an international site, it needs to be an option. Regards - Susan B
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On 1/11/2015 8:00 PM, @SusanB wrote:
As a fellow USAn, I agree about what I see the date format listed. Is it at all possible for the *user* to allow the date to show up in their preferred format? For an international group (and there are several), letting a USA person see it as MM/DD/YYYY; and whoever else wants to see it in some other format - it will not affect anyone else who is reading the group. The alternative is to make sure that the date has the 3-letter month, and a full 4-digit year. That eliminates all confusion, no matter which comes first. Diana
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Dana
In regard to this:
> The alternative
is to make sure that the date has the
3-letter month, and a full 4-digit year. That eliminates all confusion, no matter which comes first. Actually, there is
still confusion because some people put the day before the month and some put
the month before the day.
Susan B
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On 1/11/2015 8:27 PM, Susan B wrote:
Actually, there is still confusion because some people put the dayYes - which is why spelling out at least the first 3 letters of the month, and using a 4-digit year - would work for any date. 13-MAY-2015 = MAY-13-2015 = 2015-MAY-13 = 2015-13-MAY. Only other language I'm familiar with is Spanish - and the above would be the same in Spanish. (May = Mayo) The other option I mentioned is the option used by Excel - allow the person to choose their own format - but since I am not the programmer here, I'm not sure which option would be easier to implement. dg
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Laurence Taylor
On 12 Jan 2015 04:27, Susan B wrote:
Dana In regard to this:But that doesn't matter if the month is given as a word; neither 15 JanThe alternative is to make sure that the date has the3-letter month, and a full 4-digit year. That eliminates all or Jan 15 are ambiguous. -- rgds LAurence <><
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Sure, but most people don't do this, and
adding the words takes up space which is sometimes a concern.
Susan B
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All, as mentioned, I will be adding the ability to change your date format preference. Not sure when I'll get to it, but it'll be soon. So, I'm going to go ahead and close this thread. Thanks, Mark
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Susan B <doggiesmail@...> wrote:
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