How Do You Write (Or Type) The Current Date?

[arwalden]

One of these? Or something else?

[cmd]

1. 6/12/04 n/t

[soothsayer]

2. depends

sometimes 06-12-04

Sometimes all the other ways, except number 2, which is simply incorrect. (on edit, according to most style guides)

[Bjornsdotter]

3. Two ways

Hi,

I use both 12-06-04 and 12 June 2004.

Cheers,
Kim

[amandae]

4. Usually 12 June 2004

but sometimes 06.12.04

:hi:

[Sindawe]

5. Depends.

As I voted, its currently 12 June 2004. When I worked in the Bloodmines of Boulder (Somatogen/Baxter), the date was written as 20040612 on all process documents.

[berry]

6. 04-06-12

I know it's odd, but I use this when filing newspaper articles, etc on my hard disk. This way, June '03 and June '04 items (for example) don't get lumped together. Probably I should have gone with 2004-06-12 so as not to have the 1999 articles come after the 2000ff articles, but I'm too lazy to correct for that now.

Does anyone else do this?

On letters, e-mail, checks, etc. I'm more conventional: June 12, 2004.

[salvorhardin]

11. ISO 8601

2004-06-12 is the International Standard's Organization ISO 8601 format. Like another poster here though, I usually omit the dashes and just go with 20040612.

On edit: forgot the link...
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

[berry]

19. Thanks! I didn't know there was an Int'l Standard.

But it does make sense. And leaving out the dashes sounds good too. Maybe someday I'll even clean up my older files.

As for the US being different from most of the rest of the world on this, it reminds me of the resistance to the metric system. I've come to suspect that it really isn't just ordinary people's stubbornness. It could've been done. But having different measurements amounts to a kind of invisible trade barrier. Eg., if people want to sell paper in the US, they have to manufacture it specially. In the rest of the world, they use A4, B5, etc.

[Teddy_Salad]

7. This so confuses me

I grew up in Australia and have also lived in Britain where the date is always written with the day first.
Todays date would therefore be 12/6/04.

I come to live here and all of a sudden I have to place the month first.
This has caused me some problems as on my Aussie passport the date is written day/month/year but on my Green Card it is written month/day/year.

And to confuse things even more, when I first applied for a drivers license here I wrote my birthdate as day/month/year.
So anyone looking at it would think I was born in May and not October.

I'd be interested to know how it's done in Canada.

[arwalden]

9. There Really Ought To Be ONE Standard... DD/MM/YY

Smaller to Largest. Simple, really.

Sometimes when the day is greater than 12, it's easy to figure out if the writer has used the dd-mm-yy format or the mm-dd-yy format. But I'd rather not have to guess at all.

-- Allen*

* still has checks that say "______________ 19___"

[Endangered Specie]

20. The best solution to that...

is, whichever order you use... use the word not the number for the month... And use 4 numbers for the year (2 for the day), because some people do Year-Month-Day and 12 June 04 could also be 4th of june 2012.



This version DD Month YYYY or Month DD YYYY or YYYY Month DD are unambigous.

[MikeG]

25. Don't forget the millennium bug.

I plan on living another 1000 years, how about you?

[Richardo]

8. 38150

So sayeth Grovelbot

[Paradise]

10. Saturday!

:silly:

[terrya]

12. 06/12/04.

The month, if it's a one digit month, has to have the 0 in front of it. Well, I do. :-)

:hi:

[Gemini Cat]

13. 12.06.04

day.month.year

[Nailzberg]

14. 12 JUN 04

And that's my birthday, so I got dibs.

Dibs on what, I have no idea.

[MusicTVstar]

15. 6.12.2004

i have to be original ;-)

[stevielizard]

16. 6/12/4 dropped the 0 eom

[greekspeak]

17. Love the Bewitched pics in your post

My favorite show ever!!

[arwalden]

27. Thanks Greekspeak!

;-)

[Endangered Specie]

18. 12 June 2004CE

Not really CE, but being a southerner I get some heat for writing it "like a damn European"... I take it as a compliment.

[Endangered Specie]

21. Because people use various orders...

its important to keep the FORMAT standard, if you do that the order is irrelevant... No matter what I use (am forced to use) I spell out the month, 2# for days, and 4# for year... That way there is no confusion no matter who reads the date.

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. 12 Jun '04...

or 12 June 2004, or 12/06/04. Day/month/year...from smallest temporal subdivision to largest. Which I do for the same reason I use British/international English rather than American...I'm going to want to live abroad at some point, and I think it's a good idea to break myself of orthographic peculiarities which are practised by Americans but are not common in any other English-speaking country.

[SnohoDem]

23. 2004-06-12

(computer geek)

[Ksec]

24. 9/ 23/04

drop the zero in the month

[m-jean03]

26. Other --

"Not dating anyone currently..." :P

[Endangered Specie]

31. hahaha

"That son of a bitch ex of mine..."

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

28. Depends... on computer files I tend to go with YRMONDA

which puts the files in proper sequence alphanumerically, when writing the date, like in my journal... DAMONYR usually.

[kymar57]

29. mm/dd/yy

Although some apps at work require mm/dd/yyyy:shrug:

[SarahB]

30. usually 6/12/04 or 6/12/2004

[achtung_circus]

32. Other because I use 2 methods

For letters, and personally I use June 12, 2004 but we have a protocol for notetaking and report writing which would be 04 JUN 12.