How Many People actually get Family Finder Results in the 3-4 week time Frame given..

[Dna-donut]

Possibly, but I speak to people (in writing) from all parts of Africa, India, England, Slavic countries and the Far East. If I ask them when their birthday is they never write back using the designation of dd/mm/year. They express it by writing the name of the month and then the date. And, NO, these people I am writing don't know I'm from the U.S. Sometimes I write in other languages so they wouldn't know if I'm American or not.

Well in my experience it is day/month/year. Besides, unless you are perfectly fluent in the language, I am sure they know you are from America.

As posted several times now we Americans are actually one of the few who use Month/Day/Year and even then when I am personally asked and depending on the phrasing and context there are many times I respond XXth of Month or sometimes I respond Month XXth. It just depends.

[Tenn4ever]

I think they express a courtesy to you or they live in the USA .

W.

Possibly, but I speak to people (in writing) from all parts of Africa, India, England, Slavic countries and the Far East. If I ask them when their birthday is they never write back using the designation of dd/mm/year. They express it by writing the name of the month and then the date. And, NO, these people I am writing don't know I'm from the U.S. Sometimes I write in other languages so they wouldn't know if I'm American or not.

[dna]

I know people from many different countries and different cultures and when I ask them when their birthday is they don't respond my birthday is 1 May or 23 Jan etc. They always say 'my birthday is May 1st or Jan 23rd. They may write it on paper differently but they don't speak it that way.

I think they express a courtesy to you or they live in the USA .

W.

[David Guetta]

This thread made me curious, if you want to go down a Wikipedia rabbithole: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

[Tenn4ever]

Yes many of us would say 23 Jan 2014. It's mainly the USA that likes to be different and wont get with the rest of the world, just they do with miles, weights etc...

I know people from many different countries and different cultures and when I ask them when their birthday is they don't respond my birthday is 1 May or 23 Jan etc. They always say 'my birthday is May 1st or Jan 23rd. They may write it on paper differently but they don't speak it that way.

[grahcom]

Yes many of us would say 23 Jan 2014. It's mainly the USA that likes to be different and wont get with the rest of the world, just they do with miles, weights etc...

[Sarmat]

If someone from any country, any language, asked someone else when they were born. They would not say (for example) 23 Jan 2015. The person would answer Jan 23, 2015 not matter what language.

Uh... That's just not true.

[Germanica]

I know this thread got a little hijacked but I have to respond to this.

If someone from any country, any language, asked someone else when they were born. They would not say (for example) 23 Jan 2015. The person would answer Jan 23, 2015 not matter what language.

Actually, my British husband would say the 23rd of January, not January 23rd. I lived in England for 8 years, this is standard there in my experience.

The system in genealogy and all across the board formats should be 1/23/2015. That's plain in any language. It should be the standerd. If a person's day of birth is the 1st day of the month until the 12th day of the month, it could be written 1/12/2015 or 12/1/2015. That's very confusing.

Why should our system of MM/DD/YYYY be the standard when the vast majority of the world uses DD/MM/YYYY?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

[dna]

I know this thread got a little hijacked but I have to respond to this.

If someone from any country, any language, asked someone else when they were born. They would not say (for example) 23 Jan 2015. The person would answer Jan 23, 2015 not matter what language. [----]

Clearly I know a different language set than you do Try your experiment in Central Europe Moreover, in some Slavic languages, the construct January 23 would not occur in the spoken language, unless someone would be using an elaborate construct along the lines: I was born in the year 2015, in January, on the 23rd day of the month (or in January, on the 23rd day of the month). I was born on the 23rd day of January, or on the 23rd of January are the usual constructs (adding a year does not change anything).

Even in the English speaking Universe, January 23rd would not be the only response.

W.

P.S.
I do not know when and why the format used throughout Europe the 23rd day of January in the year of our Lord 2015 got transformed into January 23rd, 2015. I am imagining that Henry VIII wanted to distance his country from the old habits.

[Dna-donut]

The system in genealogy and all across the board formats should be 1/23/2015.

Problem being is you can't change history and if you view many of the old parish records in various countries, particularly those in Europe, what do you see?

This has been the standard for many many years and is carried forward through today throughout much of the world far outnumbering the other.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

[Tenn4ever]

I know this thread got a little hijacked but I have to respond to this.

If someone from any country, any language, asked someone else when they were born. They would not say (for example) 23 Jan 2015. The person would answer Jan 23, 2015 not matter what language.

The system in genealogy and all across the board formats should be 1/23/2015. That's plain in any language. It should be the standerd. If a person's day of birth is the 1st day of the month until the 12th day of the month, it could be written 1/12/2015 or 12/1/2015. That's very confusing.

[dna]

yyyy-mm-dd format is the only one universally understood. Although it may look too geeky to some.

I am trying to stick to it regardless of language used.

W.

[Germanica]

I prefer day, letter month, year such as 23 Jan 2015 as this is unambiguous and easy to focus on.

Yeah, I always use the letter month in my tree so there's no confusion. But when organizing my digital photos into folders by the date they were shot, naming folders numerically YYYY-MM-DD is the only way they will be ordered chronologically.

[MikeP]

I prefer day, letter month, year such as 23 Jan 2015 as this is unambiguous and easy to focus on. The only difficulty is then with other languages with different letters. However, this is a translation problem and, I think, less likely to cause errors (or heart attacks ... ).

[Dna-donut]

Then I realised that the United States does the dates backward and it was saying 4th Feb 2015.

Too funny!

Even though I am in the US I have done so much European Genealogy that I am used too Day/Month/Year and sometimes have to look twice when looking at US records