How Do You Write The Date?

well here in canada we write it may 28. 2010 or 28/05/10, something like that but it is generally the first one.

Well we Aussies are still under the rule of the British and your Queen so we do everything the British way. Same spelling of words, same date format and we drive on the British side of the road. Except we have the sense to use the metric system which is so much easier than imperial as you are working in tens with every unit of measurement. The Americans just like to be rebellious against the British which goes back to the early days and the Boston Tea Party I think.

HI Janey... In India, we tend to write it the way same as you do in UK... 28 May 2010... Or 28-5-2010... As we were governed by British for 150 years, we have got accustomed to many of their ways... I know how it is USA... They write the month first and then the date... Here is a little more info... The International format of a date is: yy/mm/dd... So they would write 2010 May 28 Or 2010-05-28... Have a happy weekend!

i don't know why america writes it like that-but there is an expection-if you're military.i used to write it like you do being a military brat,but the teachers had a fit.i used to cross my 7's too,and they didn't like that either.

I write it: "the date" Month/Day/Year unless it's for some computer thingie, in which case it is probably CCYYMMDD. Got it?

Here in my country,we wrote it the american way. Our education is an American standard,we write date with month/day/year. With counting numbers we also use the thousand,like one thousand one hundred. It's quiet difficult to recognize number with expiry date on products. So,i check the country too,then,i can guess about the date written on the product.

Okay, Wikipedia says it is an endianess problem. Or rather, it is a problem with endings. It also reminded me of the other form, year first then month then day. I think that is what they said. Generally people who use the British style developed the number sequence to match the words that were commonly used on documents, because documents are where the habit of dating began. The words would say blah, blah, blah on this twenty eighth day of May in the year of our Lord two thousand and ten. Easy enough to turn that to 28 May, 2010. As to why America and a handful of others are what they call mixed endians, I found no answer. The year first is big endian, the British style is little endian, and we are all mixed up. Illogical. So now my brain hurts and so does everyone else's who reads this post.

i know the official way to write the date here in the Philippines is mm/dd/yy or Mmmm dd, yyyy, so that will be 05/29/10 or May 29, 2010. but in most of my documents i usually write it as 05.29.10 and no one is complaining about how i write it.

Janey..I gave you bad info..I wrote the date the way I was taught to write it backwards on my reply. They taught us to write it, 10.6.6 not the other way around..sorry bout that..J

Hi Janey,,haven't seen you around here lately..have you been away or have I?? lol..Anyway, obviously I'm an American and to confust you even further, My Dad was a lifer in the Marines and so for the first 6 or 7 years of my schooling years I went to classes on base. The military guys write the date like this 6.6.10 and to this day I still do it. When we came back state side and returned to public schools I was always been corrected by teahers and everyone about writing it that way but its like anything..habit, plus thats how I learned to do it and it tends to stick. I still get flack from people and computers...lol..as they just can't compute it at all!..I have a question for you. One thousand one hundred or eleven hundred as we say is how I thought everyone said it..How do you say that figure? J

In official papers we right like 29.05.2010 or as 29/05/2010. But when it comes to any social invitation or else we adopt our Hindu Calender whe the same is written like "Vaishakh Dvitiya Krishna Paksha" Or "Vaishakh sood dwijj"

good trivia question hahah! i usually use this... 29 May 2010. if purely number... its 28.05.2010. however i think her in our country is almost always in this format: dd-mm-yyyy. cheers and happy myLotting!

my education has been very skewed towards the British system, so i write my dates by dd/mm/yy, ie: 30th May 2010 in the beginning when i was first involved in international business , it was quite confusing to change it around to the American dating system (the format). even now when i'm comfortable with it, i still prefer the British format..

we write the date in the international format :yy/mm/dd.so we will write 2010 may 28 or 2010-05-28.

yeah, those of us in the States have problems with our nearest neighbor's "odd" habit of writing dates. And I do know what you mean about 1,810, being eighteen hundred and ten....

I don't care how the dates are written by anybody, or how it is written country-wise. What I care about is how to read the expiration dates on the label of most of the product you can find in the supermarket, especially if you are buying an imported one. For all you know, you are buying an expired product just because you cannot fully understand how the dates are written in the label. How would you read 01/05/10? Some will read it as January 5, 2010, some say it is May 1, 2010, and October 01 or 05 for another. Some country begin writing the date with the year at the beginning followed by the month and then by day.

I write the date as September 19th, 2010. I guess this is because I grew up in American and learn it that way. The Brits and the Americans do things a little differently but it's comprehensible. I think people could understand eleven hundred as much as one thousand and one hundred.

I follow the Brit's way... Whenever i fill in an application, the format would be --\---\---- so, it will not confuse at any circumstance.. If anybody is gonna ask my birthday , i would be telling in that format only, if they confuse me with their format, i'm gonna confuse them with my format of Julian dates else i will calculate the star date and confuse them..

Hi Jane, In writing dates, i am used to do it this way...May 28, 2010 or 5/28/10. I am also confused with the thing where the day comes first before the month. this bothers me especially in checking on expiration dates or manufacturing dates--if the date is written first before the month.

I'll complicate it further for you. In the American military, they'd write it like the Brits...28 May 2010. It's not so confusing, you just get use to writing it for the audience who's going to read it.