File Naming Convention with Dates

[Ems]

Just curious if any of you save your files with the date and if so, what format do you use? (I'm stuck at home working and doing anything to procrastinate :p)

I have colleagues who save with mmddyyyy or ddmmyyyy

but I personally think EVERYONE should move to the standard of yymmdd so that your files are KEPT IN ORDER in the folder.

Just a pet peeve of mine but maybe there is a very good reason why people prefer to save it the other way and let their files build up out of order in their folders. if there's a good reason for it, please enlighten me! :confused:

alright back to work :(

[TourIQ]

Just curious if any of you save your files with the date and if so, what format do you use? (I'm stuck at home working and doing anything to procrastinate :p)
alright back to work :(
Hi Ems

Every year I set up a file folder by year. '2007' then sub-directorys like Work, Family, Web, PGA, Biz, etc. Now I name each new file to a max of only 8 characters with .ext I hate it went someone sends me a file named so long it is 30 characters in length. Now when I open Windows Explorers or My Computer to find a file I can view a ton of names in one window, so easy to find and navigate. When a file gets replaced with a newer one I use 01, 02, 03 as part of the 8 character code. Hope this helps, it works for me.

[Big Shooter]

I have always saved mmddyy, but I find "the American way" is ddmmyy :confused:

[Mule56]

Just curious if any of you save your files with the date and if so, what format do you use? (I'm stuck at home working and doing anything to procrastinate :p)

I have colleagues who save with mmddyyyy or ddmmyyyy

but I personally think EVERYONE should move to the standard of yymmdd so that your files are KEPT IN ORDER in the folder.

Just a pet peeve of mine but maybe there is a very good reason why people prefer to save it the other way and let their files build up out of order in their folders. if there's a good reason for it, please enlighten me! :confused:

alright back to work :(

Ems,
As my colleague at Ford Essex's (England) says yy/mm/dd is the original and mm/dd/yy is the colonial. yy/mm/dd is as it was once spoken. Listen to a town crier read a decree an you'll get the idea. "On this day in the year 2007 of the 1st month on the 20th day" etc..
The US decided that the Declaration of Independence would be worded as "July 4, 1776". This gave us mm/dd/yy. As you know Y2K gave us yyyy.
So as my colleague is Essex also says it's the easiest way we can tell you blokes apart from we, the originals. :)
Mule

[Ems]

That was quite enlightening Mule! :)

I have to correct BS though, I'm sure American's standard is mmddyy and Australian standard is ddmmyy. Canadians seem to switch between the two?

But IF we use dates in our file naming convention, I STILL think it should always be yymmdd no matter which country you're from! We had it right long time ago, and somewhere inbetween we messed it up! ;)

[landlord]

The only sensible way is yyyymmdd, so you can sort them properly.

It also removes all doubt as to whether it's mmddyy or ddmmyy.

[mikep]

I dont know where I found this convention, but I seem to see yyyy-mm-dd and mm/dd/yyyy. dashes rather than slashes.

[AnnikaFan]

i prefer mm/dd/yy

one of my pet peeve is when people use dd/mm/yy...especially on important documents like cheques or invoices...ARG...

[1vrahred]

mmddyy is how we do it at work...

[Big Shooter]

I have to correct BS though, I'm sure American's standard is mmddyy ;)

Not the Government!

[Ems]

Not the Government!

are you sure? when i worked in NJ it was always mmddyy, then in australia, they only go by ddmmyy and we've had discussions where macros in the states didn't run properly because they tell users to enter the dates as mmddyy but because we're in australia, it saves it as ddmmyy..?

on another note, you can't save files with slashes...

[Big Shooter]

are you sure? when i worked in NJ it was always mmddyy, then in australia, they only go by ddmmyy and we've had discussions where macros in the states didn't run properly because they tell users to enter the dates as mmddyy but because we're in australia, it saves it as ddmmyy..?

on another note, you can't save files with slashes...

OK, maybe you're right, last time I filled out a form in the US was for customs back in Feb. '06, and it was ddmmyy, but that might be just THEM!?? :cool:

[Golfbum]

Since I am retiring in May I won't care what is used as long as my pension cheque is in the bank on the FIRST of each MONTH :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
TOUR IQ, you are just too organized for this CEO ;)
I do agree that a North American Standard for this would be nice to see. I doubt it will happen, afterall we went metric and USA stayed at Imperial.