Really? You mean, when people talk every day, they ask, "What year is it?" rather than "What's today's date?"
How do you write dates?
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Really? You mean, when people talk every day, they ask, "What year is it?" rather than "What's today's date?"
the year ain't going to tell me what time my Doctor's appointment is, or when I need to be at the Job Centre to sign on or when I next need to see the dentist or which month my parent's anniversary is.
I point you to the title of this thread:
It doesn't ask how you tell people the date in every day talk, it ask how you write the date.
Unless when someone asks you for the date you actually say "two, slash, eight" or "seven, dash, eighteen, dash twelve"... in which case my apologies...
I see. In that case, I will ovelook the vagueness of your initial post as you seemed to generalize how important the year was without any context to what was being discussed in this thread. I trust you'll be more specific next time.
but You'd never say slash any more than you'd say comma or full stop.
Thinking of dates, my School never pointed out to me I was spelling February wrong all the time I was there. It wasn't until I got a PC with spell check I found out it wasn't Febuary. Again that's how I'd say it.
I think I have dyslectic tendencies, and am borderline autistic. It would explain a lot.
I'm curious, if you were adding the day of the week in to the sentence, does that flow so well in the American format?
For example
I'm flying on Friday the 13th of April.
vs
I'm flying on Friday, April the 13th.
Or would it be
I'm flying in April, on Friday the 13th?
Probably this, except we wouldn't say "the." It's just Friday, April 13th.
Although, in everyday conversation, I feel like it would be more like this:
Me: I'm flying on April 13th. It's a Friday.
You: You're flying on Friday the 13th?! Are you crazy?!
For me it's always month day year.
Feb 8.2012 or 02/08/12 or 02/08/2012
Feb 8.2012 or 02/08/12 or 02/08/2012
Which is of course to most people is The 2nd of August 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
DMY used by ~3.2bn
YMD used by ~1.5bn
MDY Used by ~310m
NB: Areas which use one or more types not noted above.
So in simple terms the DMY format is the most common format in use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
DMY used by ~3.2bn
YMD used by ~1.5bn
MDY Used by ~310m
NB: Areas which use one or more types not noted above.
So in simple terms the DMY format is the most common format in use.
All of my work orders tell me to use M/D/Y; this is companywide so I do it all the time so I don't get confused
Not in the US. Way too wordy.
^Perhaps bu I'm (I am) seems do indicate present tense. Whilst I'll (I will) is more future tense.
As for the date issue. Given that the US is one of the few countries to use the MMDDYY format that's fine so long as they do it within the US. However in an International forum they should adopt the format DDMMYY or YYMMDD so as to avoid confusion.
As for the date issue. Given that the US is one of the few countries to use the MMDDYY format that's fine so long as they do it within the US. However in an International forum they should adopt the format DDMMYY or YYMMDD so as to avoid confusion.
i'm flying out on April 13th. A friday.
And how often do people ask you what month it is?
I wasn't talking about that. I was talking about how you worded the date.
Most like you would say "I'm flying on Friday April 13th."
The other term Americans seem to drop from dates is 'on', at least in a news context:
"The President addressed the university Friday"
instead of
"The President addressed the university on Friday" (or 'this Friday', or 'last Friday' or some other choice of word)
"The President addressed the university Friday"
instead of
"The President addressed the university on Friday" (or 'this Friday', or 'last Friday' or some other choice of word)
I see. In that case, I will ovelook the vagueness of your initial post as you seemed to generalize how important the year was without any context to what was being discussed in this thread. I trust you'll be more specific next time.[/QUOTE]
I don't see the vagueness in my initial post. Please elaborate on your vague comment to make it more clear so I can better address your misunderstanding. Thank you.
Are you talking about speech or writing? If I'm saying a date its much different than if I'm writing it. This thread specifically asks about how people write dates.
Nah, I don't really have time to "elaborate." On a side note, you need to fix your quote tags.
