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: However pre-war I believe the date would more commonly have been written in the UK as, July 7th, 1920 – for example. KW" or "Wir erwarten die Lieferung in KW 49". Making a habit of doing things the right way ALL the time means you will do it the right way when it counts. I often get the year of my birth wrong, writing the current year by mistake. Trying to spend all day converting one to the other will drive you bonkers. Fortunately, there is one solution in the ISO-developed international date format. And Europe Blog is slightly incorrect, having forgotten about Japan, which would write today’s date as 2015/09/08 (2015, September 08). And I am the only one in our family whose birthdate can be misconstrued – the others are lucky enough to be past 12 in the month. The American and European methods are both brain dead. In an effort to avoid international miscommunication, the International Standard ISO 8601 was created. On the other hand, Germany also blessed the USA with the hamburger so why not? Try the Indian numerical system. The same way of giving the time is used also in Slovenia (of course using Slovenian language) perhaps as the remnant of the old Austro-Hungarian times. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Just the other day I was driving towards a knight who got pissy, veered to my right and lopped off my side mirror. My Date is in format 1/3/2016 7:56:00 AM (DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss), but PowerBI is reading the Date as MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss. – September the 11th. By the leftmost(first) character of course! Thousands of high school and college students are no doubt writing MLA-formatted essays right now. They were all taught to date their school work dd/mm/yyyy. To Quieter Elephant Fulltext search . I wouldn’t say 9/11 is *purely* a reference to the date. I think the European form is elegant, and I don’t get any pleasure out of being in an exclusive club with Belize. Read on to find out how. How do you write numbers? If they ping you in February for a March renewal you might suspect the date in the mail doesn’t indicate November. 01/02/2007 will January 2nd, 2007. numeric dates and verbal constructs: – November the 5th (Guy Fawkes Day) Pingback: Cách viết ngày tháng ở các nước khác nhau trên thế giới. Elected in sense of choosing, which they did do knowingly but I’m sure with no thought of date formats. Can you imagine how stupid you feel having to pause and think of your birthdate? If you installed Microsoft Excel 2013 USA English version, when you open a file store in European or Latin American formats, Excel will not recognize the dates. I often deal with computer dates so I also write yyyy-mm-dd … 2014-05-04. As John Adams wrote “The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. Applying logic in encoding data nurtures critical intelligence. As a mathematician, I presonally prefer to write dates like other numbers, i.e., using the ISO ordering cited. … December 25th (12/25); New Year’s Day? 'Ginger,' 'Bits,' 'Whinge,' and other U.K. expressions that have got popular in the U.S. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Your examples don’t really show anything. The bank doesn’t seem to care as long as it’s got my signature 😉. But I think that may be based on the precedent of saying “September 11th” rather than “11th September”. My wife just went on a first aid course and was told it’s now 112…… But entirely logical once you get used to it. Frederick the Great’s comments on the Church of England apply an all cases. The American format did not cause as much confusion as the date was usually written out in full. However, I bet all the countries he once ruled now use the Euro numeric. I believe it was from the same folks who thought it was a much better idea to drive on the left. There is much more to be said but I’m trying to concentrate on the question! Big OOps in Canada….. If 25% of the world population EXCLUSIVELY uses year/month/day, which happens to be the ISO standard, then concluding “most of the rest of the world” is a bit misleading. Should ever be forgot. 9 April 2012; April 9, 2012; 2012-09-04; and many other options are all unambiguous. Change ). *MDY => MM/DD/YY BTW – the Japanese use yyyy-mm-dd, the only non-technical use I’ve seen. It struck me (and my mirror) at the same time that we needed better road rules. Convert between US and European date formats in Excel Dirk Excel February 27, 2015 October 14, 2015 1 Minute The easiest way I know of (please let me know if you know a better way) to convert between US (“mm/dd/yy”) and European (“dd/mm/yy”) dates without using VBA in Excel is via “Text to Columns”. Like it’s the 35 minute with 12 seconds at 2 o’clock! The traditional representation with a dot remains in widespread use, however, and in this format leading zeros are generally omitted from the hours; additionally, the literal string "Uhr" is frequently added – e.g. 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’m so paranoid about forgetting to renew the couple of domain names I care about that I’ve authorized my provider to bill my credit card automatically when they’re due to renew. The counting system is utterly different from the West. What percentage of the English population can tell you how much they weigh in kilograms? The logic shifts (and logically so) depending on what is most relevant in terms of our daily work. Select a blank cell that you want to put the converted result at, enter this formula =DATE (VALUE (RIGHT (C2,4)), VALUE (MID (C2,4,2)), VALUE (LEFT (C2,2))), drag fill handle down to apply this … There are two variants of the 12-hour clock used in spoken German regarding quarterly fractions of the current hour. Seems to me I discovered recently it’s a totally different 3-digit number in the UK. Thanks for the check…. 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. As a logician, I contend that the information presented is insufficient to prove that Barack Obama did not visit on 24 MAY 2008, as well as in 2011. I gave up and adhere to the month/date/year style. I came upon this topic after reading a covid-19 research paper referencing 07/02/2020 ….a future date according to my USA way of reading and writing dates. 2.Another column has date in DD/MM/YYYY (27/08/2016) format but PowerBI is reading it as Text. Dezember 1991") continues to use the little-endian order and the ordinal-number dot for the day of the month. The latter is beginning to become more popular, especially in IT-related work and international projects. 2012-09-04 is not ambiguous because there are no official standards that say YYYY-DD-MM. Napoleon? ), 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? Makes perfect sense too. We had a unified system of weights, measurement and distance. The above solution has not worked for me yes, i can change the cell format to UK (rest of the world other than the Stupid USA) date format. The worst potential usability problems come when the date is written only with numbers as in the following usa, because the date's interpretation will be european from one clock to another. With respect to the European and American date formats — and 24-hour versus AM/PM clocks — appeals to logic are very much beside the point. However, others hang on to old habits. Follow these directions to change your date format in Internet Explorer to dd/mm/yy: 1. I made it easier to explain and pt to understand. My intuition would put the number at 3/4 *at least.*. Gunpowder treason and plot. That’s also the ISO standard. I told him in kilos “How much is that in old money?” he asked. National standard format is yyyy-mm-dd. The use of a dot as a separator matches the convention of pronouncing the day and the month as an ordinal number, because ordinal numbers are written in German followed by a dot. And never will. (Call me picky, but hardly a day passes that somebody doesn’t send me an unprovable tall tale about this guy, in a claim that’s more often than not debunked in Snopes. 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.” Creates a date value from a textual representation, text, following ISO 8601 format standard.An optional culture may also be provided (for example, "en-US").. Date.FromText("2010-02-19") // Date… If your “argument” is correct then why was it that before the French Revolution a number of provinces drove on the other side of the road? *ISO => CCYY-MM-DD South Africa’s also the only English-speaking country I’ve been to that uses the decimal comma instead of the decimal point. ( Log Out /  The problem is knowing which is which…uh oh. Firstdayofweek specifies the first day of the week. got them to use 6 april 2015. since it was a logical format and when it was imported to systems could be easily manipulated. European date vs. american date. Choice of driving side is entirely arbitrary and a non sequitur. It's very good for real-time measurement, the use of this software is very professional. Americans understand other Americans, Brits understand other Brits, Nerds and mathematicians understand other nerds and mathematicians. To me, it sounds like you’re saying that this September is one of the 11ths or the 11th instance of a September (or 9 generations after September, Jr.). Hey… I live in the US and I don’t understand why people don’t use the metric system. To be prudent, I always write dates dd mmm yyyy (eg 27 Oct 2012) to make sure there’s no confusion. No one has ever had any problem with that, and to the best of my knowledge computers understand it just fine! Before posting and after some research to answer my own question, I deleted my second paragraph, but WordPress posted it anyway. Years could be written with two or four digits; the century was sometimes seen being replaced by an apostrophe: "31.12. I’m afraid I do find the Americans’ insistence on writing dates “the other way round” from the rest of the English-speaking world a bit irritating. Unless of course they’re ambidextrous and routinely commute with a .44 Magnum in the glove compartment? Since portions of the population continued to use the old format, the traditional format was re-introduced as alternative to the standard yyyy-mm-dd format to DIN 5008 in 2001 and DIN ISO 8601 in September 2006 but its usage is restricted to contexts where misinterpretation cannot occur. ", but "9. Besides that, in Hungary the big-endian year-month-day order, has been traditionally used. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it will change anytime soon. Just out of curiosity, Methos, how much do you weigh in kilograms? But also remember that, thanks to India and other former colonies, as many people drive on the left as well as on the right. In case American’s aren’t aware, ‘telegram age’ means 100 years old. Also, there are many explanations for this. Excel always fails when the date contains a combination that … When in Rome …do as the Romans do. Like seeing the temp was 20c and putting on a heavy sweater and coat thinking it would be cold. This natural order (not the European one) is used in China and Japan. AND be sure that the commas are in if you wrote the month in letters failing which your knuckles will have an appointment with the teacher’s ruler. That we aren’t I don’t take to be a sign of some failing on the part of one nation or another. My family were all born in the UK, but my children were largely schooled in BC. In colloquial speech, the 12-hour clock is also used in some places/countries. The traditional all-numeric form of writing Gregorian dates in German is the little-endian day.month.year order, using a dot on the line (period or full stop) as the separator (e.g., "31.12.1991" or "15.4.74"). ... For information about how to format addresses correctly, please use the examples below. White and Strunk in Elements of Style urge use of the non-comma format for composition. I only use purely numerical formats when the reader is not North American. I used to fly to America a lot. I weight 82kg and I am 1.78m tall. I use the format …eg for today…09 IV 2012. For half-hours, the absolute form as in "halb zwei" is used everywhere. I send out a membership list … Eurostyle is logical … preceding from the smallest to the largest unit. Of course, I also add the Hebrew date b/c that’s the way I roll. Thus, if you're currently in the US, 06-Aug-2019 will be put as 8/6/2019 in your sheet, while for the UK it'll be … I would have to think hard to know what those were was in archaic measures but then I was taught in metric from when I was in my early teens. Days and Hours are more critical than Years and Seconds. Anyone who must sort a large number of files in chronological order quickly becomes a fan of the ISO 8601 standard (YYYYMMDD). Pingback: Good On Us | Not One-Off Britishisms. If you are working in an international coordinate company, you may suffer with the problem that convert Euro date format to US date format. Some goes for Taiwan’s 105/01/06 as their first year of the Minguo era was in 1911. And Ragged Clown, please do remember that the old Imperial system really forced you to think. *DMY => DD.MM.YY We could all be speaking Esperanto, too. A variant of the 12-hour clock is also used, in particular in informal speech for approximate times.

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