smart51
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 08:12 PM |
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Ordinal or numerical date?
After a bit of a discussion with an international audience, I want to refer back to a more British point of view. Which is correct way to write a
date, as an ordinal number ( 5th November) or as a plain numeric number (5 November)?
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GeorgeM
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 08:16 PM |
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any way as long as it's not the american way
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blakep82
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 08:17 PM |
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5/11/08
5th november
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 08:22 PM |
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If it's part of a sentence then "5th November" or ideally "fifth of November". If it's in a box on a form then it
doesn't really make any difference, in fact "5 November" probably makes more sense as the 'th' is fairly redundant (or
just 5/11/xx). That said personally I would write 5th November as it's what I learnt when I was young!
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mookaloid
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 08:23 PM |
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I was always taught 5th November
I presume that's the correct way but I've never checked it out myself 
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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blakep82
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 08:28 PM |
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on 2nd/second :p thoughts, meh....
as long as its not 11/5/08, coz thats the 11th of may!
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 08:30 PM |
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1225843201 
I'm such a geek 
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MikeR
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 08:38 PM |
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oooh you geek, i haven't checked but i can guess what you've done
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smart51
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 08:38 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by martyn_16v
1225843201
I'm such a geek
Unix time?
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 08:41 PM |
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bingo! I'm not alone
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eznfrank
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 08:59 PM |
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In legal documents the general practice seems to be 5 November but I think as long as it's consistent throughout the document or whatever it is
you're writing it doesn't really matter.
As above though as long as it's not 11/5/08.
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scudderfish
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 08:59 PM |
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ISO 8601, it's the only way to be sure
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meany
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 09:00 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by martyn_16v
bingo! I'm not alone
you should be...lol
only joking
[Edited on 5/11/08 by meany]
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smart51
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 10:36 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scudderfish
ISO 8601, it's the only way to be sure
Except that it is a numerical only date, in Hungarian format i.e. Year Month Day, e.g. 2008-11-05. It doesn't mention ordinal dates with months
spelled as words at all. Otherwise it is quite useful.
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 10:49 PM |
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mmmmmmmmmm
We write 05/11/2008, our American friends write 11/05/2008 but................
I visit the states a fair few times a year, often to commission equipment in the pharmacutical industry, all the verification documents require the
date written as we do to avoid confusion, as said above the second version can easily be miss interpreted to read 5th May 2008.
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Michael
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| posted on 6/11/08 at 10:05 PM |
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When i learnt to type i was always told to write it as 5 November.
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