Difference in writing date and time all over the world
By Norra Re
@frenki (1693)
Serbia
September 30, 2018 3:31pm CST
It's interesting to me that it's not same format of date and time used all over the world. For example there are 12 hours and 24 hours format for time. Here we use 24 hours.
However, no metter which one you use it wont be confusing. But date can be. For exmaple there are formats dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy (d-date, m- month, y-year). So for first 12 days of any month it can be confusing if you dont know which format was used. If we talk about 3rd of April in one format its 3/4/yyyy and in other its 4/3/yyyy. So people could mistake it for 4th of March.
Here we use dd/mm/yyyy.
What formats do you use?
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@topffer (42155)
• France
30 Sep 18
@Mike197602 Thank you. My silly Linux box knows only GMT.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Oct 18
In the US we use mm/dd/yyyy, but when I write on myLot I will usually indicate the date by dd/mm/yyyy, since I know many members on this site are from countries that say the date differently than Americans. We also use the 12-hour time format instead of the 24-hour time format, but for those who served in our military, and those in law enforcement, they use the 24-hour format.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
2 Oct 18
@frenki Because our military operates all over the world, our soldiers have to be on the same system as the rest of the world. That includes date/time, and it also includes knowing the metric system (the US is very archaic and still hasn't completely switched over to the metric system yet).
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@Mike197602 (15504)
• United Kingdom
30 Sep 18
In the UK we use both 12 and 24 hour time and our date format is day-month year so different from the US which use month day year.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
1 Oct 18
Just like you, I get confused at times for dates especially when using numbers for dates in Excel.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
1 Oct 18
@frenki That should have been nice - a uniform format universally accepted.
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
1 Oct 18
I live in the US where we use mm/dd/yyyy. Sometimes when I look at the expiration dates on food products that are imported from other countries I am not sure if the date I see is in dd/mm or mm/dd format. And I hate that because I can't tell if the product is already expired or not.
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