topic Re: Very minor niggle. in Plusnet Feedback

Very minor niggle.

Stevef1 — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 12:30:49 GMT

Plusnet, why do you use horrible American dates in your emails? Surely you are a British company? why use yankee date format?

Yes it's a very very minor thing but still, It bugs me a tiny bit that I have to "decode" a date in your emails, rather than know at a glance what it is.

Re: Very minor niggle.

adamwalker — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 17:07:38 GMT

Thanks for bringing it up,

I've passed on your feedback about that.

Re: Very minor niggle.

Jonpe — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 22:46:30 GMT

I've checked a few of my emails from PN and the dates, both in the header and the body of the email, are in the usual dd/mm/yy format. This includes billing, promotional, and renewal offer ones. Or are you referring to the PN email service (which I don't use)?

Re: Very minor niggle.

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 10:37:39 GMT

I've checked a few recent received Plusnet emails (both billing and support) and the date format in mine is neither American (mm-dd-yyyy) as reported by @Stevef1, or English (dd/mm/yy) as seen by @Jonpe !.

The dates in the text of the messages I have are in International format : yyyy-mm-dd

Personally I am happy with English or International formats, but NOT American.

Re: Very minor niggle.

Chris — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 16:42:55 GMT

I believe the emails referred to are in the format @Anonymous mentions, so YYYY-MM-DD, however we should be trying to use consistent formats so Adam has flagged this up.

Re: Very minor niggle.

MauriceC — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:39:17 GMT

@Chris wrote:

..................., however we should be trying to use consistent formats so Adam has flagged this up.

I far prefer the International format yyyy-mm-dd. Hope this becomes THE standard.

Re: Very minor niggle.

PeterLoftus — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:32:29 GMT

I prefer the military format 15 Nov 2017 rather than 15/11/2017

works in folder names in Dos/Windows as well

Re: Very minor niggle.

shutter — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:31:49 GMT

I prefer the "logical" way of expressing a date.... as in ... today the date is the Fifteenth of November in the year 2017

i.e. 15:11:2017 or 15/11/2017 ( not to be confused with 15/11/17 [1917] ) or dd/mm/yyyy

and I think that most of the "official" forms and documents. presented to the members of the United Kingdom follow this rule.

just a thought... why don`t we also have a "Thumbs down" icon as well as the "like" "thumbs up" icon... ? ? ? ?

Re: Very minor niggle.

198kHz — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:38:36 GMT

@shutter wrote:

just a thought... why don`t we also have a "Thumbs down" icon as well as the "like" "thumbs up" icon... ? ? ? ?

Surely there are enough petty arguments on the forum without adding fuel to the fire?

Re: Very minor niggle.

gofaster — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:56:08 GMT

There is an international standard for date formats

https://xkcd.com/1179/

Very few people use it.

Re: Very minor niggle.

198kHz — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:17:03 GMT

Interesting; I was involved with ISOs in '88 but that one passed me by.

Seems like a good idea - and one I've always used for files and folders on a PC to keep things in date order.