Template talk:Dates2

Don't you think this is a little anglo-centric? "Offence"? A Google Fight search proves that "Offense" is more commonly used, but that doesn't mean it's correct here. How about half the template is in commonwealth English, and the other half is in American English? - Mys  e  ku rity

This is not good for anon users how it mentions preferences, I don't believe not logged-in people have preference options. --WikiSlasher 11:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

I disagree

 * "If the article is about an American topic, use mm/dd/yy. If it is a British topic, use dd/mm/yy."

People throughout the world are bound to read about both American topics and British topics on Wikipedia, and should not be confused by these foreign date formats. Besides, the format normally used here is neither of these, but to write them as e.g. 24 September 1979, which automatically adjusts to user preferences.

Ambiguous date formats don't belong anywhere on the WWW, except perhaps in instances where the reader has configured the website to use a particular format. There may be instances where writing dates long-hand would take up more space than desired, but that doesn't alter the fact that you should use an unambiguous format such as 24 Sep 1979 or the international standard 1979-09-24. -- Smjg 15:17, 18 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Oops, I fell for the confusion somebody created by using "dd/mm/yy" and "mm/dd/yy" to mean formats that are neither. I've now changed it to something that makes more sense. -- Smjg 15:26, 18 December 2006 (UTC)