Meanings
alternative ddmmyy
- Used on forms to indicate that the date should be written as two-digit days, months, and years, e.g. 020411 for 2 April 2011
The Hire Date/ Adjusted Hire Date/Last Day Worked must be inputted as DDMMYY or DDMMYYYY.
2013, Jason Wood, William Brown, Harry Howe, IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises, page 1672 more examples
For example, in the United States, MMDDYY (Month Day Year) is common, although DDMMYY is used sometimes.
1998, Adrienne Escoe, Nimble Documentation, page 69Data fields coded into structured programming languages in the 1960s and 1970s were restricted to DDMMYY.
2016, Ganesh Natarajan, Prameela Kalive, From Start-Up to Global Success: The Zensar Story
alternative ddmmyy
- not comparableHaving dates represented in day-month-year order of two-digit days, months, and years.
It starts by describing the numbered menu structure, the standard DDMMYY input for all dates....
1987, Accountancy, volume 1003 more examples
This feature is greatly appreciated by programmers bored with converting YYMMDD dates to DDMMYY or MMDDYY for display.
1981, Auerbach Publishers, editor, Practical data base management, page 131The problem may arise as follows: the user, when specifying the delivery date, provides the date in a DDMMYY format. whereas the service expects a DD/MM/YY date format.
2010, Nathan Griffiths, Kuo-Ming Chao, Agent-Based Service-Oriented Computing, page 158For example, a date entered as “01/10/83” should play back as “01 OCT 83” to indicate that the computer assumed a DDMMYY input convention.
2012, Clement J. McDonald, Buying Equipment and Programs for Home or Office, page 15
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