I've Changed My Dating System
I have decided to change my dating system out of convenience. I am not going to write the date in a YY-MM-DD format rather than the American MM-DD-YY format. An article in 2006 magazine has finally made me firmly decide to change my dating system. Markus Kuhn at Cabridge University in England has a International Standard Date and Time Notation page which explains the logic behind this format. Basically 75% of the world is already using this format and it is convenient when alphabetically sorting files on the computer because files should be sorted by year, month, and then day.
At the moment you may notice that the dates on my blog don't have hyphens in them. I may change this for readability purposes, but it looks so cool without hyphens.
At the moment you may notice that the dates on my blog don't have hyphens in them. I may change this for readability purposes, but it looks so cool without hyphens.
2 Comments:
Not to be critical, because I can understand the logic behind the other system (when sorting, sort by year, then month, then day), but most American citizens are used to it the other way. And without hyphens, though it looks cool, is simply unbearable.
By Will, at 2:20 PM
Most Americans are actually used to it by MM-DD-YY which to me makes no sense. DD-MM-YY even makes more sense then MM-DD-YY. I have decided I'll put the hyphens back in the dates for my blog. I just wanted to see what it would look like but it is hard to read.
By T-Ray, at 3:39 PM
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