Cygna Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Please make sure you're following the guidelines to standard topic name format for defense reports.Few things to reiterate:no need for the word "to" when "-" is shorter and easier to followtilde (~) is not hyphen (-)no need for colons (:) in 24-hour time formatno need for am/pm in 24-hour time format Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyphre Iredell Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Should really find something more productive to do with your time than nitpicking symbology for threads posted by people not in Data Entry jobs, where special syntax is required for an external medium to register properly. Nice and all to have conformity, but minor tidbits don't appear pertinent to call everyone out, as it were, for a 'third episode' detailing your hatred of tildes and colons.Also you missed the part about a standardized MMDDYY format since I see up there someone using YYMMDD as per the common European standard (especially with the year being 10). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sera Otoro Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 personally i think we should copy paste how murcury says it, but i also pull faces when the dates and times are not done how they should be... i suppose my OCD is to blame there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Russell Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 To avoid confusion with the European/American difference in dates, I propose we format dates as the Imperator has done for ages, that is instead of 13/1/10, or 1/13/10, we use 13JAN10. No one can get confused, and it is A LOT (from personal experience) more readable. Thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygna Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 That's a good idea, Trevor. Would Probably be best like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desereck Creeggan Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 I ALWAYS use the format DDMONTHYYSo today would be 13JAN10 which is the easiest to read in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sera Otoro Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 go for it, even i have to admit i get a little confused at the format order when doing a CR... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinity Heckroth Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Im used to DDMONYY because thats how the army did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulliver Carpool Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Yeah, that 011110 crap sucks. It looks binary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygna Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 Please see Defense Report Topicname Format Change for the date format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sera Otoro Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 bumping this because people are still using the old formats... please check the format thread in the defense report section... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
