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General Aviation Discussion => General Aviation Discussion => Topic started by: Hermes on March 02, 2017, 05:33:07 PM

Title: Date layout
Post by: Hermes on March 02, 2017, 05:33:07 PM

Moderator, At this point am totally confused by the date layout used on Message Titles, some Dates used appear as if the subject was
in Feburary, some God knows when, please clarify the Correct Date Layout.
Sorry to be so pickey, but its doing my head in figuring out when the event occured.

Pat Whelan

Title: Re: Date layout
Post by: smudge on March 02, 2017, 05:50:16 PM

After years of translating between European, Canadian and US documents I was hammered into using ISO 8601 dates, which is what I see in the forum threads:

« Reply #5 on: 2017-02-15, 13:34:42 »

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

Title: Re: Date layout
Post by: gadwall58 on March 02, 2017, 06:05:54 PM

While I prefer 02/03/2017. Day/Month/Year.  I have used this for over 50 years.

Title: Re: Date layout
Post by: smudge on March 02, 2017, 06:34:41 PM

And ICAO uses YYMMDD, which makes this ex-Y2K-patching-programmer sad.

Title: Re: Date layout
Post by: gadwall58 on March 02, 2017, 06:52:06 PM

Somebody make a decision on the format and we'll try and stick to it.

Title: Re: Date layout
Post by: The Gaffer on March 02, 2017, 07:07:45 PM

Why not DD/month/YYYY which prevents any possible confusion?  e.g.  02 Mar 2017

Title: Re: Date layout
Post by: Angry Turnip on March 02, 2017, 07:26:57 PM

It`s really down to who starts the post,but I would think most of us would use the DD/MM/YYYY system,I don`t like the USA System,seems daft to me.

I will pass this on to Casper. :)


Meantime could we all please try to use the DD/MM/YYYY system which seems to suit most,until I hear back from Casper?

Title: Re: Date layout
Post by: casper on March 03, 2017, 09:11:11 AM

I think we should keep all formats as close to those used locally as much as possible. So I think in this case it should be DD-MM-YYYY.

Having said that I'm not going to use any draconian measures to ensure it's adhered to. If any members continue to post in a format other than this I'll try and make a point of changing it.