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(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 are 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 F (December).
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Dec-14-2016, 07:09 PM
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(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
Dec is good
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(Dec-14-2016, 07:09 PM)wavic Wrote: (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 whoops... i meant F not m
Quote:Oh, my bad! I was meaning %m as '12' acording to date command in linux :D
I 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
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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.
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(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!
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If you decide for 'Dec' I prefer space
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Wouldn't "dec" and "oct" be misleading though? :)
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If a Martian Python programmer visit the forum may be. With their two moons ... It would be confusing. 
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Dec-15-2016, 02:27 AM
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(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 then I changed polls to allow more options
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(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 then I changed polls to allow more options
Not in the polls, in the date time options 
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