01:02:03 04/05/06 - Where will you be? | The Coffeehouse

Stephen

Where will you be?

01:02:03 04/05/06 - two minutes and three seconds past one in the morning on the fifth of April in the year two thousand and six...

For USA readers this is only a few hours away, for us Aussies it won't happen until the forth of May as our Time and Date format has the 'correct' logic with dates displayed in the format day/month/year rather than the US format of month/day/year.

(We Aussie's haven't forked the english language and embrace the metric system) Tongue Out

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

Isn't it 04/05/2006? Not 06?
Also isn't America (maybe UK & Aus) the only country to place month before day & year?

(so I'm a bit cranky, it's pre-coffee, so lay off)

Harlequin
http://twitter.com/TrueHarlequin

Yeah, I wish the date formats had a standard. There was a Microsoft event or something I was looking at, the email I got said it was on 8/6/2006, and the website said 6/8/2006. Thus I had NO idea what day it was on, since nowhere was there a long version of the date to be seen... Perplexed

sbc
GW R/Me

If everyone used the format YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2006-04-05) which is disambiguous and an agreed international standard, it would be ideal, but not everyone is familiar with that format. Just check regional options to see the various date formats (although today isn't the best day to do that). I don't think many countries use the M/D/YYYY format.

Manip

I think there are only two correct formats:

DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY/MM/DD

The MM/DD/YYYY format is just stupid as heck, and makes no sense at all. I also don't mind the DD/MM/YY format (short-year) but it can be less clear than the longer one stated above.

Tom Servo
W-hat?

Where'll everyone be at 2006-05-04T03:02:01Z?

AndyC

Manip wrote:

The MM/DD/YYYY format is just stupid as heck, and makes no sense at all. I also don't mind the DD/MM/YY format (short-year) but it can be less clear than the longer one stated above.

And yet people everywhere, including the UK, write the date as e.g. April 4th 2006 without batting an eyelid.

It's not as clear cut as you'd think (even though i think dd/mm/yyyy is best)

Rossj

Minh wrote:
Isn't it 04/05/2006? Not 06?
Also isn't America (maybe UK & Aus) the only country to place month before day & year?

Just the US, UK and Europe is dd/mm

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

I'm a yyyy/mm/dd fan myself, even though no country uses it. It just sorts better.

Stephen

Rossj wrote:

Minh wrote: Isn't it 04/05/2006? Not 06?
Also isn't America (maybe UK & Aus) the only country to place month before day & year?

Just the US, UK and Europe is dd/mm

ASFAIK

US = mm/dd/yy

AU & UK = dd/mm/yy

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Yeah, the US is the only one I know of that uses mm/dd/yy.

It was quite a suprise filling out the customs form last week when coming back into the US to see that it was asking for dd/mm/yy. I suppose that's because it's more internationally acceptable.

Angus
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To answer the original question, I will probaby be sleeping. Thanks for pointing this time out as I find these things interesting.

Angus Higgins

harumscarum
out of memory

I will be sitting in a restaurant with some coworkers debating on going back to work.

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I too will be asleep (hopefully).

Angus
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harumscarum wrote:
I will be sitting in a restaurant with some coworkers debating on going back to work.

I was assuming it would be 1:02:03 am; am I correct? (Are you oing to be in a restaurant at that hour?) If I am not correct we need to have the debate of whether to use the 24-hour clock or not. Tongue Out

Angus Higgins

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

[quote user="Harlequin"]Yeah, I wish the date formats had a standard. There was a Microsoft event or something I was looking at, the email I got said it was on 8/6/2006, and the website said 6/8/2006. Thus I had NO idea what day it was on, since nowhere was there a long version of the date to be seen...

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There is a standard, it's called ISO 8601.

Aka:

"YYYY-MM-DD HH:NN:SS" (seconds are optional).

Never use slashes with ISO8601, always use dashes instead.

Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

Maurits wrote:
I'm a yyyy/mm/dd fan myself, even though no country uses it. It just sorts better.

AFAIK, the Japanese locale uses yyyy/mm/dd.

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

I will be sitting in a lotus position eating bon bons and humming the words to Mary Poppins "Supercadufragelisticexpialidotious".

Wink

sgomez
Yada yada yada!

Stephen wrote:

ASFAIK

US = mm/dd/yy

AU & UK = dd/mm/yy

Latin America = dd/mm/yyyy
As a developer I'm a YYYYMMDD fan... waaaay easier!

Regards
.seb
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http://sgomez.blogspot.com

zzzzz
Yes its an Economy vehicle

I'm a fan of just the seconds since some date you choose. This way you don't care how you display it, it will always be correct

for Unix is 1972 in windows its 1980 Perplexed

jmacdonagh

Doesn't the MM/dd/yyyy logic follow how you speak dates in English?

December 8th, 2005 -> 12/8/2005

Or do people say: The 8th day of December in 2005?

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

jmacdonagh wrote:
Doesn't the MM/dd/yyyy logic follow how you speak dates in English?

Unless it's "the Fourth of July" Wink

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

jmacdonagh wrote:
Or do people say: The 8th day of December in 2005?

"Eighth December Two-thousand and five" instead.

Angus
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In the UK people tend to say the date like this:

e.g. Date => 05-04-2006
       Words => The fifth of April, two thousand and six

The logical way to write it, if said in the above way, would be:

DD-MM-YYYY

Although some people shorten the year to something like this:

e.g. Date => 05-04-06
       Words => The fifth of April, oh six

       Date => 05-04-96
       Words => The fifth of April, ninety six

This makes another logical way to write it:

DD-MM-YY

In all my time writing the date at school only one teacher has ever wanted us to write the date in the format:

<month>, <day number> <year>

Most people that I know prefer:

<day name> <day number> <month>   {<year>}

The writing of the year is not something I do, but others I know do.

I use the written date, i.e. with words for anything other than Mathematics, in which I write the date in numbers, in the format DD-MM-YY.

All seems pretty logical really.

Angus Higgins

out180

Makes me miss the good old DTG format. Big Smile

040302Z MAY 2006

I'm in Sierra at the moment. Wink

* I'm assuming the previous post of the time in Z is correct, I didn't bother to figure it myself.