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LoginIn the U. In my opinion, the U. It is, in any case, getting more and more popular over here, as in this post from the web site Military. As a mathematician, I presonally prefer to write dates like other numbers, i. However, my personal style is to use decimals rather than slashes to separate the year, the month, and the day.
Visitors to a web site from varying locales may be confused by date formats. The separators may be slashes, dashes or periods. Some locales print leading zeroes, others suppress them. Your first impulse may be to assume this problem will be taken care of during localization of the web pages - i. Resist this impulse.
I'm using Excel I just copied a column of dates from a web page and pasted them into a column in Excel.
Dates can be awkward in Excel. Speaking from personal experience, I remember one project manager was nearly fired after he thought the deadline was 1 March when it was in fact 3 January Now, I know many readers would prefer this to be the other way around.
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