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ITinerant

Member

Time and Date format

Hi Xable,
Just wanted to say Happy New Year.

I'm just beginning to recover from my disability that has been affecting my mind for a very long time.  I'm feeling much better ever since New Years Day.

I have a question.  This is in no way a criticism about your board.  I wanted to make sure that's understood because it might sound like it is.

I notice European date format is day-month-year. I guess this is or at least used to be common practice over in that corner of the world. Over here we used to write it numerically just like it is written month-day-year which doesn't make sense decimally. I noticed this while organizing my files and dealing with different Date/Time formats.

The year-month-day format is catching on because of how computers count. If you think about the decimal system and if the date and time were written numerically like the way money is counted...

For example; I am posting this on January 12, 2008 at 08:05  here in California. -8 GMT.
This would be written numerically 2008-01-12, 08:05

Doesn't that make sense to you?
Remember this isn't a criticism, just an observation and maybe a suggestion.

Give it some thought before you reply.  It's natural to get all defensive about the way you've been doing things all your life.   Sometimes change is good even if it takes place kicking and screaming as it's dragged into the future.

Last edited by ITinerant (12-01-08 13:20)

Darren

(aka xable)

Re: Time and Date format

Happy New Year ITinerant, glad to hear things are getting better.

I always welcome comments and suggestions, that said the date format is what I`ve grown up with. It`s the standard in the UK... I`m not willing to change it to suite your preference nor would I expect anyone else to adapt to mine. Besides, you can`t please everybody.

btw I`m posting this on 12 January 2008 at 23:00

Numericaly that`s 12-01-2008, 23:00... 

ITinerant

Member

Re: Time and Date format

Are you right on GMT ?

BTW  If you are interested in where I actually bagan this discussion;
http://radioarchive.cc/forum/index.php/topic,210.0.html
This is the forum located in the UK about BBC Audio Archives.
I just thought you might glean something from that discussion with fellow Anglos.

Last edited by ITinerant (13-01-08 08:18)

t55

Member

Re: Time and Date format

Actually the YYMMDD is an international scientific standard and is much more appropriate for any technical forum.

I grew up with a mix of US & military standards, but the YYMMDD makes sooo much more sense that this is what I use all the time now.

When used in file names or in tables, it allows for easy chronological sorting.

The YYMMDD standard is really the only standard that makes any sense.

But hey xable, you're awesome anyway!!

Darren

(aka xable)

Re: Time and Date format

This is a none issue. Especially as the date format is a per user option in the next major release of the forum software.

Untill then I`m sure you can bear it.