Can we please use one date format?

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If it is one thing that irks me a lot, it's when people use different date formats.

I've always been raised on MM/DD/YYYY

but a lot of times I'll see

DD/YYYY/MM

DD/MM/YYYY

And depending how the date is written, I'll get the wrong date!

For example, lets say a game is due out on the 3rd of January.

So it's written like this:

(DD/MM/YYYY) 3/1/2013

But since I've been raised on MM/DD/YYYY I'll take that as march 1st instead of January. I know game companies do this a lot on trailers and really bugs me.
 
Here we use DD/MM/YYYY.
It's a bit confusing when people use other format. I may read it wrong and then we will have problems.
 
I just use the default date which is month, day, year format in MS Word and other text programs, but I dislike it when people use numbers instead of words for the month, and only use 2 characters for the year like 2/12/12 since you don't know if it is Febuary 12, 2012, December 2, 2012, December 12, 2002, etc.

I think companies like bread companies use shorter date formats to use less printer ink, and use less plastic for those bread bag fastener tags, and use a smaller sticker to display the best before date on the bread bag to save money on ink, best before stickers, and fasteners for bread bags.
 
I wasn't serious when I posted those as I thought that this was a semi-serious topic.

The dates and calendars are different because of the regions that use them. If a region doesn't want to use any of the options available, then it makes sense that they would come up with of their own that they would use. So while Sunday is apart of the weekend, it is also the beginning of the week as Saturday is regarded as the 7th day. Monday is the start of a work week, but Sunday is the start of a calendar week, which would make Saturday, the 7th day. For the religions that believe that Sunday is their day of rest, they're week starts with Monday.

But, I'm sure that at some point in history, in order to shut the conflicting sides the fuck up, someone intervened and said, why not have both? And then, the 2 day weekend was born.

It all boils down to what you believe. Christians believe Sunday is their day of rest, while Jews believed it to be Saturday, to make sense of it all, Both days were regarded as the weekend, to allow both to observe their religious days, when the 5 day work week was becoming the norm. If Muslims had as much pull, we'd all have a 3 day weekend, since their day of rest is on a Friday.
 
I was raised with DD/MM/YYYY and get confused by International (*cough*American because no where else seems to do it) companies and it drives me crazy.

I will, however, format my documents/folders with YYYY/MM/DD simply due to it being easier to organise them that way.
 
I'm sure in the future, more people can use barcodes or QR Barcodes on their documents, expiry dates for food, and people scan a barcode with their Smartphone's or Tablet's camera, and there would be an app on your mobile will just use the default date format which you prefer, and it would also download the entire document for you to read on your phone, tablet, and e-mail a copy to your e-mail account for back up purposes, and to edit and print when you are on a PC.
 
I find it unlikely that they will replace the expiry dates with QR codes because:

a. Not everyone will own an advanced enough phone
b. This should be obvious, but it is still easier to just print and read a date

Unless they're going to provide more info, it will just be a waste of time. Heck, it would probably still be a waste because why would you get your phone out to read a date and useless information when you could just read a date?
 
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