The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".

Re:The Rise of "Logical Punctuation". by hugh3 on Friday May 13, 2011 @01:07PM (#2545314)

Of course you only say it that way in America.

Today is the Thirteenth of May, not May 13.

I prefer dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy/mm/dd though, just to keep what is usually the most important information at the front.

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Re:The Rise of "Logical Punctuation". by Pistos2 on Friday May 13, 2011 @01:47PM (#2545471)

I like YYYY-MM-DD for two reasons:

1) Sorting the string representations sorts in time order.

2) It eliminates ambiguity almost completely, because extremely few places use YYYY-DD-MM. The ambiguity of most ##/##/## dates is irritating.

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Re:The Rise of "Logical Punctuation". by r00fus on Friday May 13, 2011 @06:28PM (#2546444)

I prefer how we did it in the military: 13MAY2011. mysql: %d%b%Y

No ambiguity, easy to parse and 3-letter month is natural delimiter between day and year numbers.

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Re:The Rise of "Logical Punctuation". by run4yourlives on Friday May 13, 2011 @03:32PM (#2545856)

dd-mm-yyyy can easily be confused with mm-dd-yyyy. The only format that is obvious is yyyy-mm-dd.

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Re:The Rise of "Logical Punctuation". by hugh3 on Friday May 13, 2011 @03:49PM (#2545928)

Until somebody starts using yyyy-dd-mm and screws everything up.

Besides, often when you write dates you leave the year off entirely.

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