I just give them the day. I always assume the know the month and year.:cool:

So, you actually say "Four-slash-five-slash-two-thousand six" or "Four-five-two-thousand six" or even "oh-four-oh-five-two-thousand six"?

No, I put them in that order though. Month first, date second, year last. Similar numerically to today's date: 04/05/2006

And really that's what this thread is all about. Most everyone should agree that when giving the date, keep the year part last. And make strides to change it wherever it's not that way.

In speaking with someone, sure. In writing and keeping items chronologically, no. Just as I may say "It's one-o'clock" when it is around lunch time, I'll never write anything other than "13:00" when keeping records straight is important.

No, he says "em em slash dee dee slash why why why why"

oh well, some people never want to be daring.

I'm a dd-month (yes, spelled out)-yyyy person, except when doing documentation at work where the standard is mm-dd-yyyy. We just got a new computer system which, for unclear reasons, does not use (and cannot convert, it's a really stupid piece of software) military time, which is the protocol for our written documentation.

2:07pm? No.
14:07 EST? Nope.
19:07 UTC? No way.

The time should be stated as @796!

(anyone who gets that referenced failure of a 'technology' gets a cookie)

dd yy mm

is this some sorta tecky rap hipppppttyyyyddddhooop.?

Hey boys, and girls, its Today, March (something or other) 1988, and something bigs gonna happen in 12 hours.

ok, is the millinum thing gonna happen at gmt time or the atomic Colorodo time?

what the hell is gmt? When Big Ben Bangs, so the ships know where they are in the middle of the ocean?

Okay, TB's drunk.