Do you write dates with a ''/'' or a ''-''?

[The_LED_Museum]

Another poll here...when you write or type a date, do you write it like "02/26/06" or "02-26-06"?

 

[Morelite]

"-"

 

[ACMarina]

I don't use either, generally. I use a standard such as this - today is:

26 Feb 2006

Harder to mess up that way..

 

[carrot]

Yeah, I like ACMarina's way whenever possible.

Say... Craig, what's up with all these polls all of a sudden?

 

[Numbers]

same here
26 Feb 2006

 

[idleprocess]

Third vote for the "miltary" date standard. I typically date checks that way and only use the goofy "American" MM/DD/YYYY fotrmat on forms where instructed to.

Europeans have it right with DD/MM/YYYY - at least that makes sense (albeit least-signifigant digit first). I prefer YYYY.MM.DD for my own uses, however - makes it easy to sort dated... anything on a computer.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

It depends on how much room I have to write in the date.

 

[jtr1962]

Oddly enough, I tend to use "-" on the computer and "/" when writing. Slashes seem to be easier to write quickly but dashes look better. And I always use a four-digit date to remove any ambiguity.

 

[The_LED_Museum]

Say... Craig, what's up with all these polls all of a sudden?

I guess I just got a wild hair up my toliet muscle...I honestly don't know *WHY* I started these poll threads. :cornfused:

 

[CLHC]

Most often I use "|" then "." followed by the "-" if at all possible. . .That's all!

 

[PlayboyJoeShmoe]

Today is 2-26-06

I was born on 4-13-60

Any questions?

 

[paulr]

Lately I'm using ISO 8601 format (2006-02-25) in contexts where I'm trying to be careful.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

 

[GG_Blaisdell]

Neither. For seven more minutes it's 26FEB06 .

EDIT: Nevermind, the CPF server time is off by 8 or so minutes, so it's really 27FEB06.

 

[cosine]

Fairly evenly both ways. Just depending how my pen flows across the paper or how I feel like typing that day.

 

[attowatt]

Neither....

2.26.2006

 

[cratz2]

I tend to almost always write out the month... February 8, 1973... even on applications and whatnot. I think I've used both "/"s and "-"s though.

 

[cyberhobo]

Neither. Example, 06FEB27

 

[Mike Painter]

I use a slash when writing and about 90% or more of the time on a computer use
month <space> day and the computer formats properly to a mm/dd/yyyy format.
so 2 27 comes out 2/27/2006
I'm not likely to be around when the Y3k problem arises...

 

[Trashman]

Well, I picked slashes, but I noticed today, at work, I used dashes without even thinking about it. If there were a "both" or "either" category, I would pick that one.

 

[Sixpointone]

Although I use both, I guess I primarily use the Backflash.