Dates

Can we agree to use this style: Day, Date, Month, Year?
As in Tuesday, 10 March, 2009.
The mixture of US and British styles can be confusing.

I've found several problems and only one solution... though it's a bitch to read.

Issues:

• Ambiguous

• 3rd March... then someone bumps an old thread... this year? last year?

• Ride on the 5th!... of when?

• 4/5/09... US vs UK date... UK should rule, but who knows.

• Sorting

• What rides are coming up?

• Is there a way to view all rides as a chronological list... what happened last year or the year before?

• Lacking information

• 21/4/09... what day is this? I can only do Wednesdays and is this a Wednesday?

So what I've pretty much decided to enforce (and I can, as I'm the boss and I've got control of the thread titles) is the ISO date format.

ISO = International Standards Organisation

The format is:
YYYY-MM-DD

And to the end of that I'm appending the 3-letter day:
YYYY-MM-DD DAY

So you get:
2009-03-21 Sat

Which is pretty damn clear, sortable, unambiguous and gives you all the info you need.

And I'm putting it at the start of the thread titles so that the benefits of it being sortable work.