Day-Month-Year (or) Month-Day-Year? Which is the correct date format for media?

LordSutch

Question: Seeing as we print our dates in [Day-Month-Year] format, why then do most Irish TV & Radio outlets talk in terms of MM-DD-YY?

'February the 27th' would be the norm on Irish TV & Radio nowadays, instead of the traditional "27th of February" but why the change?

PS: I actually heard 'February Twenty Seven' on a Dublin radio station yesterday, which is one step too far for my way of thinking :cool:

Just curious . . .

IRE60

Taking a lead from writing (and lets assume its scripted to harden the agreement!) The format varies depending on Euro (Eng) or US prefs: The British establishment do a day-month-year, whereas stateside its month-day-year.
So it depends on who the station is trying to mimic and the pref of the script writer.

Another strange one is in writing numbers; many publications stick to using using the words up to and including ten, then you may use numerals! (might as well enlighten)

JTMan

27 February 2013. That's the clearest way of writing the date!

LordSutch

Well I was brought up to say "the 27th of February", but as I say, most Irish media outlets say differently nowadays.

coylemj

With the notable exception of 'the fourth of July', the Americans almost always say 'month date' which is consistent with the way they write the date as MM-DD. I expect that their way of saying the date (e.g. 'March 3rd') has been taken up by the Irish media as part of the relentless adoption of everything coming out of the US.