The Britishisation of American English

Re:The Britishisation of American English by dpark on Thursday September 27, 2012 @11:36AM (#4581140)

> The same thing might be influencing a trend that Yagoda has spotted for Americans to use the day, month, year format for dates - 26/9/12 rather than 9/26/12.

Is this actually happening? I see YY(YY)/MM/DD sometimes (that's what I use, albeit with hyphens), but I've never seen an American use DD/MM/YY in the US.

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Re:The Britishisation of American English by kbenson on Thursday September 27, 2012 @12:40PM (#4581495)

My wife always rolls her eyes when I fill out forms with dates in YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601) format. I feel it's my duty to help in this small way to liberate people from crappy date formats. :)

For electronic record keeping, the benefits over the American standard of m/d/yy or the British standard of d/m/yy are plain.

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Re:The Britishisation of American English by dpark on Thursday September 27, 2012 @12:48PM (#4581538)

My wife doesn't seem to care too much, though I think she's asked me about it before. The big benefit is that it's nonambiguous. No one is going to see YYYY-MM-DD and be confused about the date (YY-MM-DD is a different story for at least a few more months). Natural sorting in electronic systems is a huge plus, though.

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Re:The Britishisation of American English by Vivtek on Thursday September 27, 2012 @02:49PM (#4582166)

My wife is Hungarian, and so does YY-MM-DD anyway. (Although rolls her eyes that the MM isn't a Roman numeral.)

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