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RE: Date format - metulburr - Dec-14-2016
(Dec-14-2016, 06:52 PM)nilamo Wrote: Increasingly less specific seems like the way it should be, especially since most people are conscious of what the current month/year areNot true to everyone. I often have to ask my wife what month it is when writing down a date. Im ashamed to say sometimes i do that with the year also. lol
regardless, the order in which they are shown i could care less about. I think textual representation is best for the month as it completely makes it clear which is which, whichever way it is displayed. I personally prefer M (Dec) as it takes less space up though as opposed to F (December).
RE: Date format - wavic - Dec-14-2016
(Dec-14-2016, 07:02 PM)metulburr Wrote: Not true to everyone. I often have to ask my wife what month it is when writing down a date. Im ashamed to say sometimes i do that with the year also. lolOh, my bad! I was meaning %m as '12' acording to date command in linux :D
regardless, the order in which they are shown i could care less about. I think textual representation is best for the month as it completely makes it clear which is which, whichever way it is displayed. I personally prefer M (Dec) as it takes less space up though as opposed to m (December).
Dec is good
RE: Date format - metulburr - Dec-14-2016
(Dec-14-2016, 07:09 PM)wavic Wrote:whoops... i meant F not m(Dec-14-2016, 07:02 PM)metulburr Wrote: Not true to everyone. I often have to ask my wife what month it is when writing down a date. Im ashamed to say sometimes i do that with the year also. lol regardless, the order in which they are shown i could care less about. I think textual representation is best for the month as it completely makes it clear which is which, whichever way it is displayed. I personally prefer M (Dec) as it takes less space up though as opposed to m (December).Oh, my bad! I was meaning %m as '12' acording to date command in linux :D
Quote:Oh, my bad! I was meaning %m as '12' acording to date command in linux :DI think m (12) would be the same problem that started this thread. But in the opposite way. 11.12.2016 to you means dec 11 2016, but to me means nov 12 2016
RE: Date format - wavic - Dec-14-2016
I know the american way well. Dec is good.
I see now the date of my laptop is Wen Dec 14, 21:15 :D Funny! But I don't bother for date too much.
RE: Date format - Kebap - Dec-14-2016
(Dec-14-2016, 10:34 AM)Larz60+ Wrote: Believe it or not, somewhere in my library I have a complete book on date formatting
I believe so. When I started this thread I was worried about order of information, and whether or not the month is written as a number or a name.
Now I learned, there may also be abbreviations, and even more important: What can you put between information? Space? Dash? Colon? Dot? Mix it all? Fun times!
RE: Date format - wavic - Dec-14-2016
If you decide for 'Dec' I prefer space
RE: Date format - micseydel - Dec-14-2016
Wouldn't "dec" and "oct" be misleading though? :)
RE: Date format - wavic - Dec-14-2016
If a Martian Python programmer visit the forum may be. With their two moons ... It would be confusing.
RE: Date format - metulburr - Dec-15-2016
(Dec-14-2016, 08:10 PM)wavic Wrote: If you decide for 'Dec' I prefer space
added the option
Kepab Wrote:All results tend to go in one general direction: We need more options added. I think there should be no hard limit to number of options, so that's no big deal thenI changed polls to allow more options
RE: Date format - Kebap - Dec-15-2016
(Dec-15-2016, 02:27 AM)medulpurr Wrote:Kepab Wrote:All results tend to go in one general direction: We need more options added. I think there should be no hard limit to number of options, so that's no big deal thenI changed polls to allow more options
Not in the polls, in the date time options
