Advantages of middle-endian dates

[jack]

Advantages of middle-endian (MM/DD/YY) dates:

• 3/14/15 is an extra-special Pi Day

Advantages of ISO standard (YYYY-MM-DD) dates:

• Everything else.

Comments

[seryn]

I hate the middle-endian dates here. But I haven't accepted that the year is the front-loaded information. DD-mm-YYYY is what I like. However, I would vastly prefer if we renamed all the months to A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L. Then we'd get DDmYYYY and we could even drop the random punctuation.

[corrvin]

I too would like this! Although if you added an M then we could have all four-week months, plus an intercalary day.

[jack]

I definitely think this would be better, but I think it's probably better to just give up in the calendar making sense, rather than hoping people will standardise on the same improvements...

[naath]

Well "clearly" the year should be 36 weeks of 10 days each, with 5 (or 6) non-week, non-month special days; 12 months of 3 weeks each. It should begin at solstice (I propose the solstices, equinoxes, and my birthday as the special days ;-p)

Days could be either 10 or 100 "hours" long, with hours having 100 minutes, minutes 100 seconds.

And we can start numbering from some recent Significant Event.

Everyone happy now?

No, alas I think most people are pretty attached to the existing system.

[jack]

I'm not sure about the year. Instinctively, I want it to be greatest significant value first. And that way it's unambiguous, because no-one is using YYYY-DD-MM but some people do use MM-DD-YYYY. (Or have I misunderstood, does "mm" mean "jan, feb"?)

But I agree, letting months would be a LOT better!