Date ordering boggling

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[eroxors]

wow, a month later... have you heard anything from them?

[Nemesis]

wow, a month later... have you heard anything from them?

If hes from other parts of the world, it would read as April 3rd

[veryveryinteresting]

wow, a month later... have you heard anything from them?

If hes from other parts of the world, it would read as April 3rd

After I worked in an environment with coworkers from 40+ countries, I learned to only put dates as 4-Apr-2013 (if the working language is English) as most other countries put it in day.month.year format as opposed to the format in the US which is month.day.year.

[gill83]

wow, a month later... have you heard anything from them?

If hes from other parts of the world, it would read as April 3rd

After I worked in an environment with coworkers from 40+ countries, I learned to only put dates as 4-Apr-2013 (if the working language is English) as most other countries put it in day.month.year format as opposed to the format in the US which is month.day.year.

Day.Month.Year or Day/Month/Year makes more sense. Smallest Unit/Larger Unit/Largest Unit. I don't know of any other country that writes dates as ass backward as US. But then US does most of the things ass-backward. Some examples: zippers on jackets on the right side (as opposed to left for most of the world), switches turn on when turned up (as opposed to down for most of the world), floor on top of ground floor is second floor (as opposed to first floor for most of the world). And don't get me started on color/colour, favor/favour etc.

[ice_chill]

Date of application is 03 April 2013

[chalbersma]

wow, a month later... have you heard anything from them?

If hes from other parts of the world, it would read as April 3rd

After I worked in an environment with coworkers from 40+ countries, I learned to only put dates as 4-Apr-2013 (if the working language is English) as most other countries put it in day.month.year format as opposed to the format in the US which is month.day.year.

Day.Month.Year or Day/Month/Year makes more sense. Smallest Unit/Larger Unit/Largest Unit. I don't know of any other country that writes dates as ass backward as US. But then US does most of the things ass-backward. Some examples: zippers on jackets on the right side (as opposed to left for most of the world), switches turn on when turned up (as opposed to down for most of the world), floor on top of ground floor is second floor (as opposed to first floor for most of the world). And don't get me started on color/colour, favor/favour etc.

It's not that ass backwards. It's in the order that dates are commonly said.
Example:
3-2-2013 = "February third twenty-thirteen"
2-3-2013 != "February third twenty-thirteen"

We write it like it's said/thought.

[Gator-hex]

Yes from London England, looking at his other sale, you Americans write the date back to front!

You say it 3rd of April, 2013.
Day-Month-Year is logical smallest to largest time unit!  

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[bcpokey]

Why this became a thread about date ordering I wouldn't know. Date is particularly arbitrary, "smallest" to "largest" doesn't even make sense and is a particularly stupid argument, especially if someone is in the UK which uses the same measuring system as the US (imperial rather than metric).

I would put forth that for most uses Year/Month/Day would be most "logical", if used in a "left to right" reading context. For every day use the order is particularly unimportant, except in consistency; if you enjoy OCD things like "smallest to largest" it fits, and in an organizational manner it is the simplest (say if you are organizing something chronologically, year first separates years, then years into months, then months into days).

So everyone has it wrong, happy now?