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Talk:List of date formats by country: Difference between revisions

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There is at least one mistake in the section with map. Table says that both YMD and DMY systems (green) are used by 10 mln people. At the same time on the map Poland is marked green (not sure if this is correct BTW - I mean people have no problem understanding YMD but they almost exclusively use DMY; also the next table says that Poland is DMY-only, so there's inconsistency) and population of Poland alone is 38 mln. Also I added all values in the table and I got 5170 mln. Are the unmarked territories (mostly in Africa) really account for the remaining ~1730 mln? (edit: just checked in the Demographics of Africa article - the whole Africa population is estimated at 1 billion) Sadi (talk) 18:26, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I also came across this article recently and find the numbers full of mistakes. I guess the only thing we can do now is just fix the numbers as best as we can, however crudely! Shreevatsa (talk) 19:45, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What are the separators used in specific countries? For some countries this information is given in the details column of the listing. But for many countries, that column is empty. Are any of the separators and formats acceptable in these countries? Surely most of the people who live there will have particular preferences? Shouldn't we try to add inforamtion on seperators and formats for all countries in the listing? Otherwise, could someone add a note that states what separators and formats to use where none are given?

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Thailand should be colored cyan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.85.113.117 (talk • contribs) 16:43, 26 March 2011

As of January 10, 2012, Sweden is not correctly colored in the map and is not colored according to the table below. As I don't have a SVG editor I cannot correct it. TobiasPersson (talk) 12:26, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Switched Sweden back to green, and the tool thats needed is a texteditor --Puggan (talk) 15:49, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talking about Sweden, I do think that most people uses ISO 1802 format "yyyy-mm-dd" in written papers, as the social security number "personnummer" uses the form "yyyymmdd-rrrc", where rrr is random and c is check sum digit. But when spoken causually I think the most common forms are "d mmmm yyyy" or "d mmmm". In causally written form you can find the older forms "d/m yyyy" or "d/m -yy". But I do think that the old formats are getting more rare and more people uses "yyyy-mm-dd". Andjack (talk) 23:50, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why are there two entries for Latvia? Why is every entry in the "Details" column bracketed? The frequent reference links right before closing parenthesis looks really bad. --Kitsunegami (talk) 04:27, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The whole "green" section of the map needs to be checked e.g. Denamrk, Norway should be green (or alternatively the table should be fixed).

Speaking of this version: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Date_format_by_country&oldid=482145563

I think we can get rid of B, L, M concept and just stick with writing YMD, DMY, MDY. I think it's clearer and less redundant if we got rid of the endian notations.

Why is "JIS X 0301-2002" listed under "ISO 8601" column? Sounds like this column should be renamed to "Standards", but some of the cells say "some use", which won't mean the same without the "ISO 8601" column title. This column is a mess.

Why do we have a references column with only four cells? Can't we just get rid of this column? It looks like all other rows add references in the "Details" column. --JBrown23 (talk) 01:12, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]