en . 112 is the European (or is that international?) I often deal with computer dates so I also write yyyy-mm-dd … 2014-05-04. So what? I now write the month in English to avoid confusion. Hey… I live in the US and I don’t understand why people don’t use the metric system. I have seen this on many paintings/drawings in museums, and here’s a passage from the Roman numeral entry in wikipedia, “In Central Europe, Italy, Russia, and in Bulgarian, Croatian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Serbian languages, mixed Roman and Arabic numerals are used to record dates (usually on tombstones, but also elsewhere, such as in formal letters and official documents). Dans les Europes - jour 10. WHAT has religion to do with dates?! 2012-09-04 is not ambiguous because there are no official standards that say YYYY-DD-MM. The countries of Europe had many different systems of weighing, measuring and distance. Il s’agit de (par ordre d'entrée et par ordre alphabétique) : Allemagne, Belgique, France, Italie, Luxembourg, Pays-Bas, Danemark, Irlande, Royaume-Uni, Grèce. Registered Office Sir Ugo Mifsud Street Ta'Xbiex, XBX 1431 - Malta • Continental Operations Office C/da Padune, 11 - 64026 Roseto - Italy Tel +39-085-893-0333 - Fax +39-085-893-0050. National standard format is yyyy-mm-dd (with leading zeroes) and (yy)yy, Examples: Long date: 7. juni 1994. Get the latest European news from BBC News in Europe: headlines, features and analysis from BBC correspondents across the European Union, EU, and the rest of Europe. I have seen “proper” Canadian colleagues use color and colour in the same sentence! The problem is knowing which is which…uh oh. Unless you save the keystrokes in one place and then use them elsewhere, as I do. In UK the date is consistently written DD MM YYYY, sometimes with a comma after the day, but spoken it is often reversed with “the” in the middle, thus July the seventh; More commonly it is known as 7/7 – and is then of course consistent with either convention – to associate with 9/11. France did not. Mostly (dd/mm/yyyy) and (dd-mm-yyyy); some newer documents use (yyyy-mm-dd). “As for driving on which side of the road, remember, please blame Napoleon!”. Elected in sense of choosing, which they did do knowingly but I’m sure with no thought of date formats. The travel industry is the same way everything is day first then month then year. The most significant digits come first, not last! In June 2020, there were approximately … …I also prefer comma-free Brit correspondence style. And never will. I’m afraid I do find the Americans’ insistence on writing dates “the other way round” from the rest of the English-speaking world a bit irritating. But when giving the date in full, you can just as easily say July 4th 2012 as 4th July 2012, without its sounding in the slightest unnatural or affected. Everything ends up in a computer eventually! ( Log Out /  Also, what is the source of the illustration? I have always used the dd.mm.yy format as this is what I was taught in school, however, and somewhat bizarrely my father who is fast approaching telegram age uses the mm.dd.yy format and always has done. The American sequence month/date/year is totally illogical. This video is unavailable. I think the European form is elegant, and I don’t get any pleasure out of being in an exclusive club with Belize. UEFA.com is the official site of UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, and the governing body of football in Europe. (dd/mm/yyyy) in French and (mm/dd/(yy)yy) in Ewe. There is a temptation to cut corners by using a two digits instead of four (YYMMDD instead of YYYYMMDD) but those of us who lived through the agony of the Y2K “crisis” are leery of the unintended consequences of such a “time-saver”. It is, in any case, getting more and more popular over here, as in this post from the web site Military.com: Ah, another holiday weekend approaches and I’m getting tons of mail asking “When will we get paid?”   Folks, payday is Tuesday, 15 November 2011.  You’ll get paid on Tuesday, or on Monday if your bank releases direct deposit pay funds early. Quebec does that but two recent items from Feds have used (eg) oct 26, 2012. Interesting stuff about Napoleon and unification and I’m sure there was a time when some Canadian provinces drove on the left. European Data Protection Board. We could all be speaking Esperanto, too. Please explain, Historyfanatic! Not so re cooking or spelling or grammar, they’re flexible, ditto which side of the road a country opts to drive on. And Europe Blog is slightly incorrect, having forgotten about Japan, which would write today’s date as 2015/09/08 (2015, September 08). *MDY => MM/DD/YY Almost all government documents need to be filled up in the DD-MM-YYYY format. Obvious: two horsemen approach on a road, equally suspicious of each other. I work in Treasury services and the differing date formats are a total pain in the bum. But in America, we mostly say “4th of July” rather than “July 4th”. Pingback: “Range” | Not One-Off Britishisms. Given that >90% of pre-1900 sword-armed road travellers were right-handed, they passed to the left of each other. Yes, there are situations where this will probably never matter, for example dating a letter. Over time, I have come to favour the IBM date format standards used on the iSeries computers where the format code specifies both the order of fields and the delimiter: Why? Putting the most significant digits on the left means that everything will sort correctly. “Are you going to Dave’s party on July the 8th?” Have you also been petitioning Her Majesty’s government for the creation of a British Academy to do away with this kind of “absolutely senseless” spelling? If 25% of the world population EXCLUSIVELY uses year/month/day, which happens to be the ISO standard, then concluding “most of the rest of the world” is a bit misleading. When Napoleon took over he stopped that and unified France. To get the latest major update of Windows 10, see Get the Windows 10 May 2020 Update. For left driving UK I’ve heard/read (can’t cite) that if riding a horse and meeting another rider it was good to pass on the left of each other….so in case of attack/need for protection, one’s sword hand was closest to the passerby/antagonist….assuming right handed of course. I’m so paranoid about forgetting to renew the couple of domain names I care about that I’ve authorized my provider to bill my credit card automatically when they’re due to renew. Days and Hours are more critical than Years and Seconds. Just realised I read sword hand origin HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Eurostyle is logical … preceding from the smallest to the largest unit. I gave up and adhere to the month/date/year style. To me, the beauty of the European method is its progression of diminishing specificity with each increment of time: from day to month to year. Sensible! EMD Response 1 /32 ... Europe is currently characterised by a patchwork of bespoke national support mechanisms, both to 9 April 2012; April 9, 2012; 2012-09-04; and many other options are all unambiguous. As with many things, Canada goes with the flow. They got rid of shilling, fathoms and bushels already. I see no reason why gunpowder treason (Using dots (which denote ordinal numbering) as in d.m. During the French Revolution, a decree of 1792 created a uniform traffic law, requiring traffic to keep to the “common” right. YYYY-MM-DD is always the meaning when year is first (The logic behind this format is to read from most signifficant to least signifficant). And Ragged Clown, please do remember that the old Imperial system really forced you to think. Con 10 días te alcanza para tres ciudades como máximo, tal vez 2 días en Madrid y el resto en París y Londres,al menos así visitarías tres ciudades maravillosas y relativamente cercanas Taxes de canvi històriques de l'Euro en comparació amb divises d'Amèrica del Nord i del Sud a dia 10 de gener de 2020 (10/1/2020) Caesar? Get it right! Europe Blog notes, “The only countries that do not share the European date format in fact are the US, Philippines, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, Canada and Belize.” And Europe Blog is slightly incorrect, having forgotten about Japan, which would write today’s date as 2015/09/08 (2015, September 08). I often get the year of my birth wrong, writing the current year by mistake. Thus, as long as the sequence is based on the relative values, be it date/month/year or year/month/date, it’s cool. What percentage of the English population can tell you how much they weigh in kilograms? ( Log Out /  How do you alphabetize things? I made a personal switch to the metric system when I was at a healthcare organization and all the physicians had to refer to different things as ##cm or ##mm for various sizes of lacerations or abnormal growths that are removed. The usual EU compromise – standardisation across the EU, will supporting local history and cultures. I wouldn’t say 9/11 is *purely* a reference to the date. And Americans are not about to switch to the metric system or drive on the other side of the road. Europe Blog notes, “The only countries that do not share the European date format in fact are the US, Philippines, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, Canada and Belize.” Hence, I’m exteremely skeptical of everything I receive these days about our current president.). Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. One of the things that Napoleon did was to unify France. (yy)yy) in Russian, LST ISO 8601:1997 (obsolete) LST ISO 8601:2006 (current), National standard format is yyyy-mm-dd (with leading zeroes) and yyyy. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. I’ve seen yyyyy-mm-dd used in in South Africa – the stamps in my passport were in that format. Consulta el calendario de la Eurocup 2020/2021 Fase de Grupos Grupo A, horarios y resultados de Eurocup 2020/2021 en AS.com … December 25th (12/25); New Year’s Day? : – July the 4th (American Independence Day) I only use purely numerical formats when the reader is not North American. And oh yeah: where *did* we get our ridiculously complicated imperial measurement system? But also remember that, thanks to India and other former colonies, as many people drive on the left as well as on the right. Now when you browse the folder everything is in chronological order making that one pic you are looking for easy to find. If you're trying to activate Windows 10, see Activation in Windows 10 for more info. Every time I did I had to fill in a Green Card. Languages. It struck me (and my mirror) at the same time that we needed better road rules. 10 December 2020 In view of the economic fallout from the resurgence of the pandemic, today the Governing Council recalibrated its monetary policy instruments as follows: First, the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will … In Chinese, this pattern is extended further such that 1:30 pm is read as afternoon, one-thirty. Russia has been the worst affected country in Europe with 2,653,928 confirmed cases, followed by France with 2,376,852 cases. Simplest solution would be for us all to stick with the versions that involve logical progresssions, ie day month year or year month day. – November the 5th (Guy Fawkes Day) However 112 also works in the UK (though most Brits don’t know that), because it’s the standard EU-wide emergency number. ), If it’s so logical to PROceed from the smallest to the largest unit, why not also say and write the time in seconds/minutes/hours? Europe to Date is the podcast bringing you European affairs through the eyes of two foreign journalists. “What time is it?” “It’s the 12th second of the 3rd minute of the fifth hour.”. U.S. Army Europe and Africa trains and leads the U.S. Army Forces in the European and African theater in support of U.S. European Command, U.S. African Command and the Department of the Army. Er…. standard that the UK has now also adopted, although 999 still works. Dec, 18 2020 I use the format …eg for today…09 IV 2012. This time zone is in use during standard time in: Europe, Africa.. In Britain we tend to say the 25th of December. DMY and MDY are used interchangeably. So there you have it: one document, one country, two different date notations. The date order on the card was always Day, Month, Year.