Alternative Short Dates
By zsau , Section Wishlist [] Posted on Tue Apr 16, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
Multiple different ways of formatting short dates—such as d.mm.yy (16.04.02)—should be added to Scoop to make it more accessible to people from outside of the United States of America.

The USA formats their short dates mm/dd/yy. As far as I know, no other country does this. For people who expect dates to be formatted in a different way, it can be dangerous. At the very least, it is annoying. The International Organization for Standarization have standardised yyyy-mm-dd for short date formatting (hyphens optional). Japan uses a format similar (if not identical to this) for their short dates. In Australia, we use d.mm.yy and d/mm/yy. Scoop appears to expect people to have come from parts of the world other than America, for example, it allows me to choose the AEST timezone (although it incorrectly calls it EAST). Scoop's internationalisation should be enhanced to include support for alternative ways of formatting short dates.

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When writing short dates: · Smallest to Largest (d.mm.yy, dd/mm/yy etc.) 50% · Largest to Smallest (yyyy-mm-dd etc.) 50% · Random (mm/dd/yy, dd/yy/mm etc.) 0% Votes: 6 Results | Other Polls

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