Default Separator for Date

Hi

[Slightly offtopic, no scripting issue]

On English-US systems what is the default long date-format
and separator?

Is it

MM/DD/YYYY

or

MM-DD-YYYY


or

MM.DD.YYYY

or

YYYY/MM/DD


If there is no default what is the most common format to
enter dates on the web, if the site is en-us?

There is a difference between british and american date-defaults,
isn't it?

MfG,
Alex

Tom
Thu Nov 29 13:08:14 PST 2007

On Nov 29, 3:24 pm, Alexander Mueller <mille...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> [Slightly offtopic, no scripting issue]
>
> On English-US systems what is the default long date-format
> and separator?
>
> Is it
>
> MM/DD/YYYY
>
> or
>
> MM-DD-YYYY
>
> or
>
> MM.DD.YYYY
>
> or
>
> YYYY/MM/DD
>
> If there is no default what is the most common format to
> enter dates on the web, if the site is en-us?
>
> There is a difference between british and american date-defaults,
> isn't it?
>
> MfG,
> Alex

AFAIK, the nearly universal US format is MM/DD/YYYY. The major
difference I have seen for the UK is the use of the more logical DD/MM/
YYYY format, though the delimiter is not something I can confirm from
firsthand knowledge.

Tom Lavedas
===========
http://members.cox.net/tglbatch/wsh/

Dr
Fri Nov 30 04:12:43 PST 2007

In microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript message <01a8e5f9-4ec2-4226-aeb4-
6119e1b15a32@f3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:08:14,
Tom Lavedas <tglbatch@cox.net> posted:
>
>AFAIK, the nearly universal US format is MM/DD/YYYY. The major
>difference I have seen for the UK is the use of the more logical DD/MM/
>YYYY format, though the delimiter is not something I can confirm from
>firsthand knowledge.

In the UK, MM/DD/YY is customary. I don't recall ever seeing a one-
digit year, but one-digit day and month are common. But on till
tickets, the separator is sometimes a dash.

I find that YYYY-MM-DD is acceptable whenever the format needed is not
explicitly given.

I have seen the field order Y D M used by part of a really silly foreign
organisation.

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Alexander
Sun Dec 02 14:53:55 PST 2007

mr_unreliable schrieb:


Hi jimw uhm mr_unreliable ;-)

Thanks to you and Tom and also the date expert Dr Stockton
for clarifying the technical terms.

I was actually looking for kind of a mixture of long and short
date, actually any numeric date input in the appropriate order.

The solution i found is to use the dtpicker-control instead of
parsing text (it's an access-project). So i don't have to worry
about formats and locale. And lazy users prefer mouse clicks
to keycodes anyway.


MfG,
Alex


> hi Alexander,
>
> This is going to sound picky, but from a system perspective,
> there is a SHORTDATE and LONGDATE, neither of which look
> like the formats you propose. For an English(US) system,
> today's date is:
>
> ShortDate: 11/30/07
>
> LongDate: Friday, November 30, 2007
>
> Those results were returned by calling the "GetDateFormatA"
> api, using a long-gone (but not forgotten) "API Toolkit
> Object" ocx, which allows for calling api's from script.
> Although I suppost the same thing could be done with
> DynaWrap.
>
> The script used is attached.
>
> cheers, jw
> ____________________________________________________________
>
> You got questions? WE GOT ANSWERS!!! ..(but,
> no guarantee the answers will be applicable to the questions)
>
>
>
> Alexander Mueller wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> [Slightly offtopic, no scripting issue]
>>
>> On English-US systems what is the default long date-format
>> and separator?
>>
>> Is it
>>
>> MM/DD/YYYY
>>
>> or
>>
>> MM-DD-YYYY
>>
>>
>> or
>>
>> MM.DD.YYYY
>>
>> or
>>
>> YYYY/MM/DD
>>
>>
>> If there is no default what is the most common format to
>> enter dates on the web, if the site is en-us?
>>
>> There is a difference between british and american date-defaults,
>> isn't it?
>>
>> MfG,
>> Alex