You can't blame anyone, not much important that announcement.

Astronomers have used the Year-Month-Day Date Format for over 200 years.

• 2006-02-04 (or '20060204' in program data storage)
• 2006-Feb-04 (or '2006 Feb 04' without the hyphens)
• 2006-February-04 (or '2006 February 04' without the hyphens)

I prefer, ie, removed 'Reply to Post' in the subject line of the email notification so the full thread title gets first precedence in my inbox.

Also having an email subject Title ...
Reply to post 'Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Adv. Editing Options for Mods and Admins'

...is a bit long winded and not very user friendly sifting through inbox eh what??

I use 060616-# (y;m;d) to file my digital pics to facilitate date sequencing/retrival.

I won't be around in the 22 century and I'm sure there will be another method of taking/storing /retrieving pics and posts.

... mods feel free to move date formatting discussion to whatever time zone you like ;)

Day Month Year is the date format used by the US military so anyone who has earned their citizenship will understand.

that's what I said ;)

I didn't have the patience to read that far. :D

lol...

I have rules setup in outlook to move replies to posts to a specific folder ... if every site removed or changed this, it would be a pita. I am not happy that 3.6 changes this to update which is too ambigious.

Yep. I've been using YYYYMMDD for so many years now that it takes me a second or so to follow MMDDYYYYY listings. I propose we start a movement to make YYYYMMDD as the international programmers standard. :D

I don't think programming standards are really relevant to a date in a forum announcement that needs to be easily understood by everyone, and this is also getting way off the original announcement topic. :)

The Title for this thread is not very self explanatory (for an announcement thread) ...

Reeve of shinra, unless your referring to admins or mods who receive the first post of a thread, unless you're using the mail preview option, saving past posts into a folder for further reference, with the exception of for archival purposes seems pretty futile. ... unless I'm missing something here.
I might save specific replies as the ... =118737&goto=newpost ... enables one to find that post in a long thread.

Now I wish someone would find a way to include Username in From tag.
This is the biggest complaint I get from 'staff/members' who get all posts from a specific forum. (They're all from Forum X!)
This is another reason why yahoo type egroup listings are preferred by many for the simple fact that you can read/save/delete emails based on the username being clearly visible in From without need for using message preview etc.

Even further off the topic of date formatting is the frustration of having an international site and Americans reluctance of going metric.
I need to come up with a simple conversion chart accessable from the message posting interface for handy reference, as the only option is to include both when referring to ft/M and temperature.

What does it take around here to get a mod to split a thread. hehe ;)