American style date

It's English 20/11/17 on my i-pad mini 4, via Safari, but

it's American 11/20/17 on this IBM ThinkPad running XP Professional with FireFox.

I'm getting UK style dates on my Windows 7 / Firefox 57/64bit homebrew machine.

(Actually the Japanese are the ones who've got it right - their date format is canonical!)

Correct formats on my PC.

If the question means in the dates displayed by HoopLa in this forum, on my iPad thay are Americaln (mm/dd/yy), and have been since HoopLa first implemented.

elkman70 posted:

Is it just me noticing late or has the date format changed to the american format. It should be the english format...

It should be the format selected in your settings.

Showing UK date format here at the moment, although I had the US format showing for quite some time in the past, and changing any time format or location preferences made no difference whatsoever, HoopLa just carried on oblivious to it.

I thought the Hoopla display followed whatever the OS or browser is set at.    I'm all set for dd/mm/yy & thats what I see

Is anybody able to change their date style from UK to USA or vice-verca, regardless of whether it's showing dd/mm/yy at present or mm/dd/yy at present ?

If so, can you report the steps used to achieve this transformation ?

Now mine is showing correctly, I'm not sure I'd dare change anything, for fear that it would stay that way until HoopLa changed its mind at some random point in the future. It seems to have a mind of its own.

I also had mobile view on my laptop for ages, which was a PITA, but that disappeared after a while, too.

Don Atkinson posted:

Is anybody able to change their date style from UK to USA or vice-verca, regardless of whether it's showing dd/mm/yy at present or mm/dd/yy at present ?

If so, can you report the steps used to achieve this transformation ?

I just did it in my browser (Chrome)  Don,  I guess its the same for the other brands.  I changed to US language & its now mm/dd/yy.       I guess the how to do it bit varies between different browers so your browsers search is your friend.

You will need to have your OS and browser up to date and set to English (UK) language. Otherwise, because Hoop La is a US site it defaults to US date format.

MIne changes with just a reset in the browser Richard.   

Just discovered something strange: On my iPad with location set to my specific location in the British Isles Apple shows the region format example as 5 January 2017, but HoopLa shows dates as mm/dd/yy. However, if I reset the region to UK then while it shows the same region format example (5 January 2017), HoopLa shows dates as dd/mm/yy. Perhaps Hoopla doesn't recognise small island locations.

Richard Dane posted:

You will need to have your OS and browser up to date and set to English (UK) language. Otherwise, because Hoop La is a US site it defaults to the stupid and wrong date format.

Fixed it.

winkyincanada posted:

Richard Dane posted:

You will need to have your OS and browser up to date and set to English (UK) language. Otherwise, because Hoop La is a US site it defaults to the stupid and wrong date format.

Fixed it.

Did you modify Richard's text ? or did Richard modify his text after you had copied it ?

Don Atkinson posted:

winkyincanada posted:

Richard Dane posted:

You will need to have your OS and browser up to date and set to English (UK) language. Otherwise, because Hoop La is a US site it defaults to the stupid and wrong date format.

Fixed it.

Did you modify Richard's text ? or did Richard modify his text after you had copied it ?

I modified it. You can still see Richard's original post. My edit is in bold italics. Sorry for any confusion.

winkyincanada posted:

Don Atkinson posted:

winkyincanada posted:

Richard Dane posted:

You will need to have your OS and browser up to date and set to English (UK) language. Otherwise, because Hoop La is a US site it defaults to the stupid and wrong date format.

Fixed it.

Did you modify Richard's text ? or did Richard modify his text after you had copied it ?

I modified it. You can still see Richard's original post. My edit is in bold italics. Sorry for any confusion.

You Canadians will stop at nothing to prove you're not American! 

ChrisSU posted:

winkyincanada posted:

Don Atkinson posted:

winkyincanada posted:

Richard Dane posted:

You will need to have your OS and browser up to date and set to English (UK) language. Otherwise, because Hoop La is a US site it defaults to the stupid and wrong date format.

Fixed it.

Did you modify Richard's text ? or did Richard modify his text after you had copied it ?

I modified it. You can still see Richard's original post. My edit is in bold italics. Sorry for any confusion.

You Canadians will stop at nothing to prove you're not American! 

It's nothing to do with being Canadian. It's just wanting some semblance of logic and consistency in the world.

Ironically, the US still uses the English system of measurements.

As for the American date format, it represents the way we say dates in common vernacular. The eleventh day of October this year would be said "October 11th, 2017" and is therefore formatted as 10/11/17. As a biologist I would write that date in my field notes as "11-Oct-2017" to avoid any confusion. Nevertheless, that date will be entered into a spreadsheet as "10/11/2017" and no one will think twice about it.

The American date format may have its origin in The Declaration of Independence where the date is boldly written as July 4, 1776. All said, I wouldn't expect Americans to change their format any time soon, despite logic, consistency, or the computer age.

Otherwise, blame your web browser settings or the fact that this English forum uses an American web/mobile platform provider.

And the problem is that 10/11/17 and 11/10/17 can be confused - not really a problem in Hoopla, but elsewhere it can be critical, so anywhere that is critical the month should be shown in letter (as indeed Excel can do). 9/11 is ingrained in my head in relation to that awful tragic day because it was in constant ipuse be the American media constantly heard in our TV and radio news tgerafter, but it is an isolated case and otherwise if clearly referring to a date that format would always otherwise mean the 9th of November.

Americans also use an odd (to me) system for hours: writing 24/7 referring to being available round the clock to me is nonsensical because it means 1/7th of 24, whereas I would say either 24x7 or 24x7x365 or more likely 24 hrs a day or all day every day, round the clock, etc. 

I used to work for a US multinational & it was a corp directive that we avoided an all numeric date format, computer generated dates should be corrected or clarified.   11/10/17 should be written 11/oct/17,   some folks even got hissy fits over the dates that could not be confused e.g. 24/10/17.   

But funny how we say the date,  I say 24th of October.   Never really noticed others around me enough to comment,  something to observe in future.

Mike-B posted:

But funny how we say the date,  I say 24th of October.   Never really noticed others around me enough to comment,  something to observe in future.

And in Britain, that is how it is always written in any formal document, though usually omitting the'of' (or even full in words, twenty fourth...)