TMI BlogMANNER OF WRITING OF DATES- DDMMYYYY MANNER CAN BE ADOPTED BY ALL FOR STANDARDISATION AND EASE OF DATING AND DATA ENTRY AND PROCESSING.X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... MANNER OF WRITING OF DATES- DDMMYYYY MANNER CAN BE ADOPTED BY ALL FOR STANDARDISATION AND EASE OF DATING AND DATA ENTRY AND PROCESSING. - By: - CA DEV KUMAR KOTHARI - Other Topics - Dated:- 23-10-2019 - - Various manners of writing dates: We find various methods and manners of writing dates in documents, letters, orders, order sheets, notices, cheques and bank drafts, bankers ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... cheques and pay orders , books of account, diaries, account statements, computer generated reports, and even on computers and mobile phones. In computers and mobiles phones we have options of manner of display of dates and we can choose and change such manners. Sometimes days are expressed on single or double number. For 1-9 applying short cut single number can be used or tow num ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... bers can be used by putting 0 before the number of day. From 10-31 obviously two numbers will be used. In some styles placement of day, month and year are changed. Some example of manner of putting dates say for 1 st January 2019: 01012019 Method suggested by author. 1 st January,2019 ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 1 st January,19 January 1,19 January 1, 2019 2019 January 1 2019 January 01 ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 2019/01/01 1/1/19 1/1/2019 01/01/2019 1/1 Without year. Below many sig ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... nature and initials and short form of signature we find such mention. Expression of day and month in two digits and year in four digits: Author suggest this style and manner where first two digit means day of month, second two digits means number of month in series of 12 months running from January to December and ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... last 4 digits is for the year. In this style 1 st January 2019 will be written as 01012019 In this style 11 th January 2019 will be written like 11012019 In this style 1 st December 2019 will be written as 01122019 In this style 31 st December 2019 will be written as 31122019 Days and months will not require more than two digits. ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Years by use of four digits years long period up to 31129999 the same style can be used. Problem like Y2k will arise after 31 st December 9999 on 010110000 In computers we faced problem because earlier two digits were used for expressing year and from 1901 to 1999 year was expressed in two digits 01 to 99. This was to reduce use of computer space, because at that time ev ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... en use of two digits less in computers was a very meaning full exercise. Now-a-days space in computers is not much problem due to advance technology. However, data entry requires more time if a separator is used in expressing date. By using four digits for year we will have problem long after on 010110000 when year will be of five digits. There is long period available to fact ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... that situation. Hopefully people will take timely action and at least 10 or 100 years before year 10000 begun, action will be taken to tackle possible problems for mentioning year in five digits. Advantage of writing dates in DDMMYYY manner Without use of separator between DD and MM and YYYY as in suggested manner time for data entry can be saved because at least two en ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... try of dot, hyphen or slash will be avoided. Computerized calculations can be made easy and faster. The software will read in manner of DDMMYYY and will be able to calculate number of days between two dates. Let us start writing in DDMMYYYY manner and gradually this can be universal method of writing and expressing dates. - Reply By Ganeshan Kalyani as = Nice thought that ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... you have shared with us (readers). The date format should be same in every record. One of the way is o configure the computer with one single date format. Most of the people are using computer and when they will have to no other option then by default all will be using single date format. Dated: 24-10-2019 - Scholarly articles for knowledge sharing authors experts professionals Tax Management ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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