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#1

Well, the same thing that's wrong with changing the clocks ... ...
.... etc. etc. etc. ... ... ...

#2

Everyone has their own way of doing things.

Date formatting is just one of the things.

In the USA we use Month-Day-Year. There was a movement to go metric to be more like Europe, but that failed.

Some place go year-month-day, since the day changes faster than the month and the year. That would make year sorting easier if you do not have a system that would sort dates as a non-number.

So having

Month-Day-Year
Day-Month-Year
Year-Month-Day

as the possible formats can mess people up when you just use 2 digit numbers.

As I said, each country, or professional group, will use whatever date format they prefer to use, was taught to use, or were ordered to use [military].

I do not think we can get everyone to do it the say way. Be nice, but not going to happen.

That is why there are so many different date formats to choose from with most packages that have an ability to format the dates.

#3

Everyone has their own way of doing things.

Date formatting is just one of the things.

In the USA we use Month-Day-Year. There was a movement to go metric to be more like Europe, but that failed.

Some place go year-month-day, since the day changes faster than the month and the year. That would make year sorting easier if you do not have a system that would sort dates as a non-number.

So having

Month-Day-Year
Day-Month-Year
Year-Month-Day

as the possible formats can mess people up when you just use 2 digit numbers.

As I said, each country, or professional group, will use whatever date format they prefer to use, was taught to use, or were ordered to use [military].

The only problem is when you need to confirm dates outside your group/country. There is a possibility of confusion over the date.

#4

        Well, the same thing that's wrong with changing the clocks ... ...
.... etc. etc. etc. ... ... ...

/snip/

         This ISO is as strange as changing the time twice/year

/snip

You're right! We should just have daylight saving time all year long.
Or if we want to change the clock twice a year, we should have
DST in the winter and Double DST in the summer!

--doug

#5

you're so cute ...

       after all, those folks north of the northern snow belt - and south
of the southern -
           don't seem to worry about the long days, long nights; they still
stick to their schedule :wink:

       BTW - for those who are too young to remember pre-computing days,
the month would either be spelled out, or abbreviated;
           still the most sensible system to my way of thinking :wink:

       Only with these computers, did some of these scientists decide they
should add the hour, minute, second to the time format ...
           GMT was the standard for centuries - Big Ben's still ticking
away, isn't it?

#6

        you're so cute ...

        after all, those folks north of the northern snow belt - and south
of the southern -
            don't seem to worry about the long days, long nights; they still
stick to their schedule :wink:

        BTW - for those who are too young to remember pre-computing days,
the month would either be spelled out, or abbreviated;
            still the most sensible system to my way of thinking :wink:

They stopped using quill pens just before I entered school:-D

#7

While we are wasting space on this topic, a computer was used in the USA for the 1890 Census. I don't think any of us go back that far ... And there is a Greek machine that seems to be used for computing that goes back to 2500 BC! That was a long time ago. Think that people of that time did not recognize the importance of it?

--Dan

anne-ology wrote:

#8

ah, yes, how times have changed :wink:

       BTW - my grandparents lived during that time ... I grew up listening
to the pros & cons :wink:

      While we are wasting space on this topic, a computer was used in the

#9

Dan wrote:

While we are wasting space on this topic, a computer was used in the USA for the 1890 Census.

It wasn't a computer. It was a tabulator, which simply totalled up the various values. Prior to computers, there was a big business for IBM, with punch card readers, tabulators, printers, tabulators etc.

#10

anne-ology wrote:

GMT was the standard for centuries - Big Ben's still ticking
away, isn't it?

Not quite. Time zones came in during the late 19th century. Prior to that, each town had it's own local time. However, the Greenwich observatory was used to set London time and for navigation before that.

#11

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*I am glad I live in Arizona we do not change the clocks back and forth as to this day light savings crap does not save jack-she-it ! ! You should get on your leaders to quit doing this crap of moving the clock 2 times a year