Thread: Do you like the new date format (mm-dd-yyyy)?

Recently Admin changed the date format - from British/Indian style (dd-mm-yyyy) to the US format (mm-dd-yyyy). This was because Google search displays the date in US fromat and the sorting did not appear correctly in Google.

Please vote for your choice. Thanks.

Good move

Originally Posted by gothic_coder

Good move

Please vote.

Personally I prefer brit format, but if it helps with google search , then fine.

I find this confusing coz, google arranges result by rank of the site, unless explicitly searched with the date restriction right ?

I voted for "Yes".

I hate mmddyy...I always use ddmmyy.

Well i voted for yes because it helps in google search, Though i like brit format, I guess We(Indian) all use brit format only (Unless specifically mentioned)..

In reality, I prefer the ISO format (yyyy-mm-dd). This is because, it obeys the laws of mathematical increments.

Also, in our job, we create file name with date suffix. A date suffix in yyyy-mm-dd helps in maintaining the sort order also.

But since yyyy-mm-dd is tooooo foreign for most, I prefer to stick to the British format.

Yes it is correct, first the year should come and it is the best way to sort things

year-month-date

Its a good move as I am used to this date format mm-dd-yy.

Good move, Last night i noticed this and brought it to Admin's notice. : http://www.indiabroadband.net/sugges...ate-error.html (Google Search Results of IBF - Date Error?)



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This date format can be a bit confusing for some people. I agree. But think of this scenario. when people search for latest information, will they open the page if they see a very old date?

Ex: The Air France crash

now, will anyone open the page from google if they see the date as 6th jan?

I think, matching google's date format is for the good of the forum.

hey i prefered the old one.this one is confusing me a lot.

I prefer old one. But does it count ? Since SEO is more important, I am afraid I am fighting a loosing battle.

Wow... the poll results are very even ..

BTW, you can enjoy the old format for today ...

I think that it is a bug with Google that they are not able to "mend" their search properly. Why should we alter our ways?

Would the Americans change their format if Google had been European/Indian? Hell, they do not even wish to switch to the metric system when (almost) the whole world has done it.

Google is really a pro American company. It is Microsoft that cares a bit about Indians. They have added Rs. format in Windows 7. Their weather gadget shows small cities in India etc. Even Google Earth is Europe/US centric. There were plans of one " Bhuvan " by ISRO similar to Google Earth. It was supposed to be out by last April. No idea what happened.

^^ google when was going to be founded was funded by a fond Indian, who fondled google with care....read as ShriRam

Kavitark Ram Shriram is the founding board member of Google and one of the first investors in Google. He earlier served as an officer of Amazon.com working ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Shriram

I have voted for NO. I like the old/standard Indian format DD-MM-YYYY

moderators.. come on guys this india.. dont please bring american or european way of date format.. come back to being indians.. this is indian broadband forum for god sake...

Originally Posted by machbio

moderators.. come on guys this india.. dont please bring american or european way of date format.. come back to being indians.. this is indian broadband forum for god sake...

American and European is not OK, but British is OK?

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i dotn knw wat my ancestors where doing... but i am not going to be slave again...

Originally Posted by machbio

i dotn knw wat my ancestors where doing... but i am not going to be slave again...

Can't make head or tail out of this comment. Can you please elaborate?

:lol: i too think the same, i think he was trying to say that, he didnt know how the date format was before and how they lived with it but now he is not going to accept the same format date like old times.( I dont know how was the date format in old times )

I too prefer british format but we have to use American bcause of Google.

Originally Posted by power_downloader

I too prefer british format but we have to use American bcause of Google.

Originally Posted by machbio

i dotn knw wat my ancestors where doing... but i am not going to be slave again...

Guys, did you sleep in History class? Indians were slaves to the
British not the Americans.

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