The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for December 13, 2014
December 12, 2014
December 14, 2014
Transcript:
Brutus: Do you know what today's date is? Gladys: December thirteenth. Brutus: Yes! That makes it, numerically, "twelve-thirteen-fourteen" - it's sequentially ordered! Isn't it exciting - this date will never happen again! Gladys: I hate to dampen your enthusiasm, but that's true of every date.
The 13/12/14 notation is chiefly British: month/day/year. The conflict between American and British date notation causes endless confusion Canada which is caught in the middle.
Some companies will date your receipt 12/13/14, others 13/12/14. A week ago it was 12/06/14 vs 06/12/14. Try sorting those when you do after-the fact bookkeeping.
In In the sensible parts of the world the date is 2014-12-13 (year/month/day), the only numerical date format that will sort chronologically. You can use hyphens, slashes, spaces or no punctuation at as long as you are consistent.