Forum Date Format

Hook posted:

When writing out a date, do people in the UK generally write out "February 25th, 2016", or do you stick with DD/MM/YY and write "25th February, 2016"?  Just curious - thanks!

Hook

That latter. I write "25th February, 2016" with "th" usually super-scripted. When speaking, the non-american convention is to say "THE 25th OF February". To say "February 25th" or worse, "February 25" is just weird in my view.

With the possible confusion of dates one can only be sure which date format is being used is after the twelfth of the month.

Looking at the various versions of the us Custom Forms, they have had both date formats MM/DD/YYYY and DD/MM/YYYY so they are admitting to the irrationality of the US system, the only sensible format is YYYY/MM/DD which can be sorted in one operation without requiring regionally sensitive sub routines.

US Custom forms