> What is everyone's take on the correct date format in the U.S.?
> A bunch of us here at work got into a nice argument during lunch about
> it :-) Seems like everyone thinks their way is the "official way".
>
>
> YYYY-MM-DD
> YY-MM-DD
> MM-DD-YYYY
> MM-DD-YY
>
>
> YYYY/MM/DD
> YY/MM/DD
> MM/DD/YYYY
> MM/DD/YY
>
>
> Any others? Which one is the best and most universal way?
Funnily enough I just this second posted a response to another thread
about checking date formats.
This is for data rather than display, but the ISO standard for date/time
is 8601
(http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html)
which says that the format is like this : *YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss for a
date/time
For display purposes - all of your examples are wrong my way is the
right way - its dd/mm/yyyy ;oD
Does it really matter which way a date is displayed? Having said that
though - generally, as a brit, I see US dates as MM/DD/YYYY.
Stephen
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