What is today's date?

LordSutch

What is today's date?

1/ Wednesday the 28th of December.
2/ Wednesday December the 28th . . .
3/ Wednesday December Twenty Eight.

Irish Radio & TV exclusively use MM-DD-YY when speaking the date, and yet on this side of the Atlantic the date is exclusively written down as DD-MM-YY. Why the disparity between the writted date, and the spoken date?

Why is that, and how do you convey today's date?

Your Face

LordSutch wrote: »

... how do you convey today's date?

Interpretive dance.

The Backwards Man

Thread of the year Sir!


This is the boards equivalent of releasing the film you think will win an Oscar shortly before the nominations are out.

Tom Mann Centuria

The 28th of December.

December the 28th is pretty annoying, but December 28 is the worst.

Have to admit it irritates me probably more than it should.

Boom_Bap

I alternate between Business Date and Shamsi Calendar, so I've no idea what date it is.

entropi

Julian or Gregorian? Those seconds count.

Birneybau

Oh, do one

Barry Badrinath

Birneybau wrote: »

Oh, do one

1 or One or 01.

Dont be confusing the OP!

wil

Swipe right.

Peregrine

Tuesday the 48th of March.

Terrontress

Start small and work your way up. 25 past 4 on the 15th of March 2017.

Minute to hour to day to month to year.

wil

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Thread of the year Sir!


This is the boards equivalent of releasing the film you think will win an Oscar shortly before the nominations are out.

XXVIII XII MMXVI

Allinall

The Wednesday is totally and utterly irrelevant. It shouldn't be mentioned at all, ever like.

28/12/16.

maudgonner

Stardate 94595.47

HellSquirrel

I often have to save datasets by date where I work and it drives me mental that several of my coworkers save as ddmmyy; say 281216. How the hells are you going to find that again when there's fifty of them in there? I always save it (well, when I have exclusive access, else I just sigh and use the format that the rest are in) as yyyymmdd - 20161228, or 2016-12-28. Then at least it's saved chronologically!

This may be more appropriate in the Trivial Annoyances thread.

SeanW

If you are in the United States/Canada, the date should be represented exactly thus:

December 28th, 2016 or 12/28/(20)16. (No "the" is required).

If you are in Europe, it should be:

The 28th of December, 2016, or 28/12/(20)16.

/thread.

But for the avoidance of doubt when the date/month order might be unclear, I always recommend the use of 3 letter month codes instead of digits, even (especially) in short-form dates, thusly: 28-DEC-16 or DEC-28-2016. Not such a big deal when the date of month is greater than 12, but for something like 7/11/16 - is that July 11th or the 7th of November? Spell out the month in 3 letter codes and it becomes clear.

Capt'n Midnight

https://xkcd.com/1179/

Since 1998 the internationally agreed ( ISO 8601 ) numerical date format is yyyy-mm-dd

everything else is wrong.

MadDog76

I once tried to pay a Taxi Driver €4.32 for a fare that was easily €30 .......... I was so drunk I mistook the time for the meter!!!

Nothing to do with the thread, just thought I'd throw it anyway ........ true story.

LordSutch

Glad to see option one in the poll romping away as the winner, this in spite of the fact that you won't hear or see an Irish broadcast where they speak this format.

Its always December the 28th, and never/rarely the 28th of December.

Curious.

wil

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

https://xkcd.com/1179/

Since 1998-mm-dd the internationally agreed ( ISO 8601 ) numerical date format is yyyy-mm-dd

everything else is wrong.

Ahem:

Esel

It's yesterday's date now...