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**starbkjrus** · 17th February 07, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by cessna152towser

snip... The only thing I find a bit confusing is having the month shown before the day, in the posting date, for example 02-10-2006 will always suggest second of October to me rather than tenth of February, but this is an American based forum and that's the American order of displaying the date so I'll just have to get used to it.

I am an American and work in America. I've had to get used to (due to the computer related field I work in) to seeing dates displayed as MMDDYY (the american standard), DDMMYY (the Canadian / European / REST OF THE FREAKING WORLD standard) and what they are now calling the COMPUTER standard of YYYYDDMM.

Too d*&n confusing if you ask me. DDMMYY is my favourite. As in 17 February 07. Just my two cents worth.

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**Mike1** · 17th February 07, 04:49 PM

Actually, the forum is capable of displaying the date as 02-17-2007, February 17 2007, 17-02-2007 or 17 February 2007.

**Pour1Malt** · 18th February 07, 04:05 AM

Mike-

please display the date differently an randomly fur each threid!

that'll sort us oot!

HA!

**Jerry** · 18th February 07, 05:10 AM

Originally Posted by Pour1Malt

Mike-

please display the date differently an randomly fur each threid!

that'll sort us oot!

HA!

Yeah, that will work, and let's go to the military 24 hour clock too. Now let's see, is it add 12 or subtract 12?

**Mike1** · 18th February 07, 05:13 AM

24 hour time format is also available.

**ccga3359** · 18th February 07, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by Mike1

24 hour time format is also available.

Ohh can we go metric time> 100 minutes an hour, 20 hours a day, 10 months a year. I think that that would end all the confusion.

**wsk** · 18th February 07, 09:16 AM

I am neither for nor against showing the thread date. There are times when I've wanted to know if the thread is new or old but there was little lost when I discovered that I've already read-the-thread.

I have argued in the past for standardized date format simply because this side of the pond formats dates differently from the format used on the other side of the pond.

That got me nowhere. But, perhaps the solution is to enhance the date and time options in User CP so that we can each choose our own format. ISO 8601 and 24 hour clock for me - I know that 8601 provides for datetime representation (2007-02-18T09:08) but that is not as easily read as 2007-02-18 09:08.

**Barclay** · 18th February 07, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

Ohh can we go metric time> 100 minutes an hour, 20 hours a day, 10 months a year. I think that that would end all the confusion.

There was a comedian at Yuk Yuk's in Halifax that did a bit on this very topic - it went on for 20 minutes and I was crying so hard I couldn't see. Truly one of the funniest things I've ever heard.