How many countries use different dating conventions ie, mm/dd/yy or dd/mm/yy and is there any reason why?

zbeckabee

Here is a list (far from complete) that will give you some ideas as to how "some" are doing it...many different countries write dates in many different ways. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date Link also has some nice hyper's to such topics as ISO 8601 which deal with an attempt to standardize dating conventions. Jun 30 06, 4:20 PM

davejacobs

Oh, I see! I read 'dating conventions' as ways of going out with another person. Jul 02 06, 1:00 PM

Baloo55th

Now that computers are used for indexing and filing, the YYYYMMDD format is the most useful as there is no problem with things getting out of place. There are problems with things happening on certain dates when other numerical systems are used - when they are not standardised. In the UK, 9/11 means the 9th of November, for instance. Our less dramatic version was 7/7 - which means the same in the USA as it does here. Possible reason why is that it may come from the way dates were written by hand on letters. June 26th 1970 or 26th June 1970. THere may have been different conventions for this in different places. (I use either indiscriminately, which is probably wrong.) Jul 02 06, 1:24 PM