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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Except that most of my colleagues in the U.S. continue to use mm/dd/yyyy and some of my other colleagues use yy/mm/dd or something else. We have a policy on using English so why don't we just pick a way of expressing dates (I don't care which one) and make it a policy? Some people have taken to using the week number (e.g., week 43) to describe when an event will happen but who the heck knows which week is week 43 if you don't look it up on a calendar?
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Not me, and I'll keep bugging till they tell me a real date...
yyyy/mm/dd is generally used in combination with computers (sorting is much easier). dd/mm/yyyy makes more sense for normal every day use (start small end big)