StarDate

Reputed to originate in the future. Now that this is the 21st century, Gee, really? perhaps we start using it?
BobLee responding to KeithRay's StarDate 2002.04.08

Just nice way to list dates: year, month, day, separated by periods.

And if you're not in the continental US, just use the day that you are. Don't worry about the wiki dates; those are in California (I think). -- JohannaRothman 2006.01.28

And I thought this thread was about how to get dates with movie stars. Caro wanted a date with Lassie.

But, there is still some use to this, and it's more than a "nice" way to list dates. It's the way that allows your computer to sort them properly, without fussing around. Now, that's a useful thing, always, to have a way to sort out your life without too much fussing around. So, maybe dates with movie stars isn't such a good idea after all. I can't think of a worse way to complicate your life than getting involved with Hollywood. - JerryWeinberg 2006.01.30

Another nice effect is that it's one of the few date formats that is fairly unambiguous -- while there are both dd/mm/yy and mm/dd/yy formats extant, I don't know of any locale that uses yyyy.dd.mm.

DavidPickett 2006.02.01

My new digital calculator/watch uses

YY MM-DD (leading zeros only for the year).

Casio, $19, kmart

KeithRay 2006.02.05

My attempt to standardize, but let people have their choice.

Please use a different format depending on the separator you want to use. From what I can tell, there are 3 dominant formats.

2006-02-06 (ISO standard, also used extensively in Japan)
06.02.2006 (European standard)
02/06/2006 (American standard)

So, either y-m-d, d.m.y or m/d/y.

Of course, Canadian banks have decided to screw this up entirely by standardizing on the dmy format for cheques, but most of Canada insists on using the / separator. Idiots. (What's the plural of "durak"? I don't know Russian plurals.)

--JbRainsberger 05.02.2006 or 2006-02-05, if you prefer

When I'm trying to be unambiguous or clear, I use a date like 22 Aug 2006, but when I'm interested in having them sort into date order, I use 2006/08/22 and take care to use the same separator in every date.

DickKarpinski

Some dozen years ago, a colleague returned from a business trip to Russia (wasn't called Russia at the time). He told me that the Russions used a system of roman numerals for the month, two digits for the day of the month (that's all you need), and four digits for the year. So, 2006-VIII-22, 22/2006/VIII, and so on. Seems like that system works better than most I have seen.

DwaynePhillips 22 August 2006

Updated: Tuesday, August 22, 2006