Numeric date: 1994-06-07, Short format: dd/mm/yyyy (Day first, month number and year in left-to-right writing direction) in, dd.mm.yyyy, d.m. Obama got the year wrong! ), If it’s so logical to PROceed from the smallest to the largest unit, why not also say and write the time in seconds/minutes/hours? BTW – the Japanese use yyyy-mm-dd, the only non-technical use I’ve seen. The countries of Europe had many different systems of weighing, measuring and distance. As John Adams wrote “The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. Join University of Melbourne lecturer Clare Richardson and DW News presenter Rebecca Ritters as they explore the … 17.12.2020 Closure of EPO extended until 10 January 2021 17.12.2020 EPO closure period and financial year-end closing 2020 16.12.2020 For example, a news presenter will refer to the “July 7th” bombings, not the “7th of July” or “7th July” bombings. Quebec does that but two recent items from Feds have used (eg) oct 26, 2012. Elected in sense of choosing, which they did do knowingly but I’m sure with no thought of date formats. Took a bit but you learn by error. I often get the year of my birth wrong, writing the current year by mistake. Then, however, I discovered that on the back of the document someone wrote …, “Original Declaration of Independence To me, the beauty of the European method is its progression of diminishing specificity with each increment of time: from day to month to year. I weight 82kg and I am 1.78m tall. It is truly logical to write mm/dd/yy for that is the way we say it. Russia has been the worst affected country in Europe with 2,653,928 confirmed cases, followed by France with 2,376,852 cases. DAN EUROPE FOUNDATION. Europe Day held on 9 May every year celebrates peace and unity in Europe. In India, the DD-MM-YY is the predominant short form of the numeric date usage. Gunpowder treason and plot. European Chemicals Agency (23) European Defence Agency (10) European Environment Agency (1318) European Fisheries Control Agency (12) European Food Safety Authority (19) European GNSS Agency (2) European Institute for Gender Equality (16) European Institute of Innovation and Technology (1) European … numeric dates and verbal constructs: Today, the Ryder Cup is golf’s pre-eminent event, biennially bringing together 12-member teams from the U.S. and Europe for glory and pride on a three-day worldwide stage. The note is used in the 23 countries which have it as their sole currency (with 22 legally adopting it); with a population of about 343 million. Search. As a mathematician, I presonally prefer to write dates like other numbers, i.e., using the ISO ordering cited. How do you alphabetize things? Article. As with most things in life, what one objects to is whatever’s at variance with what one grew up with. The format with the slashes can be confusing (for day/months 12 and under) when you work for a US-based global company as you don’t quite know which format people are using so I prefer writing it in day, month, year format. I will urge others to do so ( especially if it irritates others) Why change it if it ain’t broke? (Civilian vernacular: m/d/yy or m/d/yyyy; ANSI INCITS 30-1997 (R2008) and NIST FIPS PUB 4-2. I’ve preferred the European date format since I was an impressionable pre-teen. We had a unified system of weights, measurement and distance. I own a number of domains hosted by a large US domain seller, and have on several occasions come close to failing to renew these in time due to misunderstanding the renewal date – when I see on their site that a particular domain must be renewed by “3/11/2012″, I think I’ve got till 3rd November to sort it out! European Ryder Cup qualification process to resume in the New Year. On English-written materials, Indonesians tends to use the M-D-Y but was more widely used in non-governmental contexts. Your comment about the ‘”9/11″ precedent’ intrigued me because it left me wondering whether you were aware of the significance of 911 in the U.S. (It’s the nationally recognized number to dial in an emergency. I see no reason why gunpowder treason Were they full of left-handed knights? Your examples don’t really show anything. I believe it was from the same folks who thought it was a much better idea to drive on the left. A descending hierarchy makes the most logical sense when referring to orders of time. When Napoleon took over he stopped that and unified France. True, American historians attempting to appeal to the masses may revert to April 12, 2012, but those writing for scholarly journals will not. Nobody would do this because everybody would say “there’s an order”! Er…. (BTW my use of suspension points in e-writing derives from Whitman’s 1855 preface. Technical report - 10 Dec 2020. Obvious: two horsemen approach on a road, equally suspicious of each other. View the profiles of people named Euro Date. ( Log Out /  Portal for open access research theses. So what? 4/9/12 is ambiguous. National current full format: "Ngày [d]d, tháng [m]m, năm yyyy" or ngày [d]d, tháng (month in textform), năm yyyy; short format: [d]d/m[m]/yyyy or [d]d-[m]m-yyyy; This page was last edited on 17 December 2020, at 02:34. Watch Queue Queue. Most style guides follow the DMY convention by recommending d mmmm yyyy (sometimes written dd/mm/yyyy) format in articles (e.g. Join Facebook to connect with Euro Date and others you may know. There are so many things that our conservative party refuses to consider to change. dd.mm.yyyy; leading zeroes and century digits may be omitted, e.g., 10.02.16; ddmmyy (six figures, no century digits, no delimiters) allowed in tables. *MDY => MM/DD/YY No one has ever had any problem with that, and to the best of my knowledge computers understand it just fine! Almost all government documents need to be filled up in the DD-MM-YYYY format. Frederick the Great’s comments on the Church of England apply an all cases. More news. If you write YYYY-MM-DD, that’s ok and ISO standard… I look back to my primary school teacher’s dictum (I am 75 yrs now- so no one can thumb their nose at my teacher) was dd/mm/yy. Registered Office Sir Ugo Mifsud Street Ta'Xbiex, XBX 1431 - Malta • Continental Operations Office C/da Padune, 11 - 64026 Roseto - Italy Tel +39-085-893-0333 - Fax +39-085-893-0050. How do you sort dates? This time zone is in use during standard time in: Europe, Africa.. BTW, for those who use the time analogy, you hav it backwards. 4/9/12, on the other hand, could mean either date, according to whether one is using US or rest-of-the-world dates. …I also prefer comma-free Brit correspondence style. In Prussia there are many roads, Each man must find his own way.”. DMY for Gregorian calendar. One of the things that Napoleon did was to unify France. Oracle Databases also default to 12-APR-2012, which is kinda interesting for an American country. I’m in the US Military and prefer to write the format at 10APR12 or 10 April 2012. They were all taught to date their school work dd/mm/yyyy. Il s’agit de (par ordre d'entrée et par ordre alphabétique) : Allemagne, Belgique, France, Italie, Luxembourg, Pays-Bas, Danemark, Irlande, Royaume-Uni, Grèce. Choice of driving side is entirely arbitrary and a non sequitur. Articles connexes. got them to use 6 april 2015. since it was a logical format and when it was imported to systems could be easily manipulated. “No, because it’s on the 7th of August. I made a personal switch to the metric system when I was at a healthcare organization and all the physicians had to refer to different things as ##cm or ##mm for various sizes of lacerations or abnormal growths that are removed. I gave up and adhere to the month/date/year style. 'Ginger,' 'Bits,' 'Whinge,' and other U.K. expressions that have got popular in the U.S. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! England (and I do mean England, not Britain) had been a unified country for over 800 years when Napoleon tried to invade. 112 is the European (or is that international?) Sorry. This time zone is often called Central European Time. Dec, 16 2020 See More. And Ragged Clown, please do remember that the old Imperial system really forced you to think. But entirely logical once you get used to it. Dates and now side of the road? Anyone who must sort a large number of files in chronological order quickly becomes a fan of the ISO 8601 standard (YYYYMMDD). Over time, I have come to favour the IBM date format standards used on the iSeries computers where the format code specifies both the order of fields and the delimiter: And Americans are not about to switch to the metric system or drive on the other side of the road. Remember, this is 2016. The only downside would be that blog posts such as this couldn’t be written and enjoyed. To my knowledge, THAT format takes places on 10th November…NOT NOW. It still baffles me that the USA uses a non-scientific temperature measurement system from Germany. Misunderstandings arise only when travelers fail to conform to local custom and jingoists maintain that “our way is the only logical way.” We could have this same conversation about grammar, spelling, politics, and cooking. This video is unavailable. So, it is likely that the notation was added simply as a label.'”. In America, we do not ever properly say “July 4th, 2017.” The correct usage in our system is “July 4, 2017.” The “th” is reserved for adjectival treatment: “The 4th of July.”. Europe Blog notes, “The only countries that do not share the European date format in fact are the US, Philippines, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, Canada and Belize.” The EU General Data Protection Regulation went into effect on May 25, 2018, replacing the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. what about the system which uses Roman numerals for the month? One can go on and on: the US system is supremely ILLOGICAL. The fraction form. For answers to frequently asked questions, see Windows Update: FAQ. 16/12/2020 Production in construction up by 0.5% in euro area and by 0.9% in EU. Stones, gallons and yards will surely follow. Loading... Close. Try the Indian numerical system. Here the organisation is closer to the US dating but with the year placed at the start, for example ‘2010/12/20’.”). I still think cave-in of CTV to over the border format was NG. ( Log Out /  Left to right for computer sorting pure logic as greatest to least – so writing least to greatest makes perfect visual sense also. In the U.S., it would be April 9 (or 9th), 2012, or 4/9/12. … December 25th (12/25); New Year’s Day? In case American’s aren’t aware, ‘telegram age’ means 100 years old. This is probably counterintuitive to many Westerners, yet no one has ever accused the English language of being intuitive or easy to follow. For my checks, I write, as an example, 10 April 2012. Hi John – I’ve lived in London for nearly 10 years and would concur with your conclusions (except for the reference to the “Colonies” :)), most of which I noted myself in my own comment. The most significant digits come first, not last! I have seen this on many paintings/drawings in museums, and here’s a passage from the Roman numeral entry in wikipedia, “In Central Europe, Italy, Russia, and in Bulgarian, Croatian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Serbian languages, mixed Roman and Arabic numerals are used to record dates (usually on tombstones, but also elsewhere, such as in formal letters and official documents). Hence, I’m exteremely skeptical of everything I receive these days about our current president.). Can you imagine how stupid you feel having to pause and think of your birthdate? I’ve seen yyyyy-mm-dd used in in South Africa – the stamps in my passport were in that format. Get it right! Have to just bite the bullet and do it. But who the hell came with MM/DD/YYYY? But the US date format is absolutely senseless (sorry guys, I love America but please go metric asap!).