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As someone who grew up in Canada close to the American boarder, for informal dates (school assignments, notes, etc), both DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY would be acceptable. *Canadian passports actually spell out the month, but it's still between the day and year
In the United States, dates are traditionally written in the "month-day-year" order, with neither increasing nor decreasing order of significance
Mad777 wrote:I thought that was initialy a joke seeing your post from the Tribe Forum but I guess you are being serious about it....lol
....I can copy/paste many quote and for both Canada & USA but the majority says:As someone who grew up in Canada close to the American boarder, for informal dates (school assignments, notes, etc), both DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY would be acceptable. *Canadian passports actually spell out the month, but it's still between the day and year
OrIn the United States, dates are traditionally written in the "month-day-year" order, with neither increasing nor decreasing order of significance
Make your choice
Evil Semp wrote:Now someone wants to turn CC into a Datetateorship.
I like the date, month and year format.
IcePack wrote:I certainly won’t be using that for clan events lol
GoranZ wrote:IcePack wrote:I certainly won’t be using that for clan events lol
That is one of the problem... CC is using it(which is correct): Active War, [CC8] the Fallen vs Spelunkers of Hell - Mar 2018. Started 2018-04-16 Ended 2018-05-12. Played over 2 Rounds.
So if the official records are in compliance with ISO 8601 why other titles/posts to have different date format which will be chosen by the organizer. European organizer will use one format, American one will use another, and in the end we will have confusion.
GoranZ wrote:Mad777 wrote:I thought that was initialy a joke seeing your post from the Tribe Forum but I guess you are being serious about it....lol
....I can copy/paste many quote and for both Canada & USA but the majority says:As someone who grew up in Canada close to the American boarder, for informal dates (school assignments, notes, etc), both DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY would be acceptable. *Canadian passports actually spell out the month, but it's still between the day and year
OrIn the United States, dates are traditionally written in the "month-day-year" order, with neither increasing nor decreasing order of significance
Make your choice
The Government of Canada recommends ISO 8601.
Official format in my country is DD.MM.YYYY and although over half* of the population on the globe uses that format and only 25%* of the worlds population use YYYY/MM/DD I still prefer ISO 8601(YYYY/MM/DD) for practical reasons.
*Date format by countryEvil Semp wrote:Now someone wants to turn CC into a Datetateorship.
I like the date, month and year format.
Blame International Organization for Standardization
Donelladan wrote:I agree with that suggestion. I have pb sometimes understanding dates on CC.
Just use the same date format everywhere. No missunderstanding possible.
I see you all making fun of GoranZ, this is indeed a minor point and most of the time it just take a minute to get the correct date. Not a big deal.
But he's still right, we have people from all over the world here, make sense to agree on using only one date format.
Donelladan wrote:@Mad, it's not only about the one thread you made Mad, it's in general on the whole website.
And yes, this is NOT a very important thing. We can definitely live without it and it won't change much on CC.
But it makes sense to have the same date format everywhere.
Mad777 wrote:I understand, I'm just trying to think of why all of the sudden, a date format that exist since 2006, and a format that all member had/have/will have to get use to, should change....All Forum post are using the same date as I put on my few thread (post are showing Month, Day, Year), today he is realizing the dates are not like in his country (nor in mine, Switzerland ) and would prefer a format that he may get more comfortable with but didn't really impact him for the last 9 years? That is what I'm trying to understand, but not really important if I don't get an answer , just curiosity.
I can see the YYYY-MM-DD for the Auto Tournament Scoreboard and Clans/Tribe Wars but since the year is showing with 4 numbers but Month & Day remain in the same order as the posting then what other area within the site can be confusing? (Again I'm just trying to understand where is the real issue)
Donelladan wrote:@Mad, it's not only about the one thread you made Mad, it's in general on the whole website.
And yes, this is NOT a very important thing. We can definitely live without it and it won't change much on CC.
But it makes sense to have the same date format everywhere.
FROM MAD777 :
I understand, I'm just trying to think of why all of the sudden, a date format that exist since 2006, and a format that all member had/have/will have to get use to, should change....All Forum post are using the same date as I put on my few thread (post are showing Month, Day, Year), today he is realizing the dates are not like in his country (nor in mine, Switzerland ) and would prefer a format that he may get more comfortable with but didn't really impact him for the last 9 years? That is what I'm trying to understand, but not really important if I don't get an answer , just curiosity.
I can see the YYYY-MM-DD for the Auto Tournament Scoreboard and Clans/Tribe Wars but since the year is showing with 4 numbers but Month & Day remain in the same order as the posting then what other area within the site can be confusing? (Again I'm just trying to understand where is the real issue)
GoranZ wrote:The Government of Canada recommends ISO 8601.
Mad777 wrote:It still Month, Day, Year....one the month is spelled th other the month is a numerical format....but same order...
If that is really bothering you then let me see what I can do and we can stop going further with this waste of time thread.
DoomYoshi wrote:GoranZ wrote:The Government of Canada recommends ISO 8601.
The Government of Canada also recommends rapefugees and outlawing male/female gender distinctions.
Donelladan wrote:I agree with that suggestion. I have pb sometimes understanding dates on CC.
Just use the same date format everywhere. No missunderstanding possible.
I see you all making fun of GoranZ, this is indeed a minor point and most of the time it just takes a minute to get the correct date. Not a big deal.
But he's still right, we have people from all over the world here, make sense to agree on using only one date format.
Dukasaur wrote:Donelladan wrote:I agree with that suggestion. I have pb sometimes understanding dates on CC.
Just use the same date format everywhere. No missunderstanding possible.
I see you all making fun of GoranZ, this is indeed a minor point and most of the time it just takes a minute to get the correct date. Not a big deal.
But he's still right, we have people from all over the world here, make sense to agree on using only one date format.
I'm not making fun of Goran. More like I'm making fun of the situation.
The Americans still refuse to start using the Metric System. They're not likely to bow down to European dating conventions. As long as Americans are 49.7% of CC's membership, just have to live with their quirks.
Hell, I can't even get my own wife to use a 24-hour clock!
Dukasaur wrote:Donelladan wrote:I agree with that suggestion. I have pb sometimes understanding dates on CC.
Just use the same date format everywhere. No missunderstanding possible.
I see you all making fun of GoranZ, this is indeed a minor point and most of the time it just takes a minute to get the correct date. Not a big deal.
But he's still right, we have people from all over the world here, make sense to agree on using only one date format.
I'm not making fun of Goran. More like I'm making fun of the situation.
The Americans still refuse to start using the Metric System. They're not likely to bow down to European dating conventions. As long as Americans are 49.7% of CC's membership, just have to live with their quirks.
Hell, I can't even get my own wife to use a 24-hour clock!
IcePack wrote:Year first is one of the silliest things I think I’ve ever seen and there’s 0% chance of me following that cuz it’s ridiculous
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