It’s Canadians who are confused about date notation
Cats: odd things|After a spirited explanation from Zed, I did a quick google and found that the 9-11 date notation for September 11th is correct by every national and international standard. If you wanted to be absolutely correct you would say 01-09-11. But that’s getting picky. To characterize it as day first, then month or 11-9, as suggested by this typist in a previous post, is not correct. Mea culpa.
The Canadian standards council has even written an article on the confusion surrounding numerical dating systems in Canada. It seems we can’t settle on one system. But the Americans have it right, even by Canadian standards.
According to the Standards Council of Canada the correct notation is
YY-MM-DD
According to the Canadian Treasury Board it is,
year-month-day
According to International Standards Organization (ISO), the format is:
year-month-day
According to British Standards Online, it is also
YY-MM-DD
And the moral of this little misadventure into date nomenclature?
Never swim alone.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Thanks, GT. If Canadians started calling it 11-9, Americans would most likely get all riled up and would have to come up north and start a huge war. So it’s best we settle on the correct notation now … and avoid a nuclear disaster in your homeland later.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Good heavens, someone appoint this woman to the United Nations. Stat!
September 12th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Thank you. Thank you, GT. And one would think that someone deserving such appointment to a post at the United Nations would immediately see their blogname and link placed on your blogroll. Wouldn’t one? I think so.
Just sayin’.
September 12th, 2007 at 11:59 am
One will get right on that, Zed.
Did you see the purdy write-up you got here a couple weeks ago?
http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/08/24/happy-1st-birthday-gt/#comments
In it, a promise was made by me to fill out my blogroll, a promise still unfulfilled, as you point out.
Again mea culpa.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
I just saw that today, GT. Thank you very much! I mean it.
As far as the blog-roll situation goes, you know what they say the road to Hell is paved with, right? Just checkin’.
September 12th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
u r very welcome.