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Re: Date of posts in DD-MM-YYYY format

I personally "discovered" DD-MM-YYYY and 24 hour time in junior year of high school, and since then I love it and use it nearly exclusively (except on official forms or paperwork). To avoid confusion, I'll always write the MM part as the month's abbreviation or the full name to avoid confusion, so today would be 9 April, 2010 or 9 Apr 2010. Like metric, it makes a lot more logical sense; in college where all-nighters can be common, using a 24-hour clock eliminates a ton of problems. While I like DD-MM-YYYY, as Tristan pointed out YYYY-MM-DD makes a lot more sense to most people.


// Before I switched my computers and digital clocks to 24-hour format, there was more than one occurrence where I woke up from an afternoon nap, saw the clock read 07:xx, and thought it was morning (and started getting ready for class) when it was still the evening.
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