In Australia we use day month year. It can be written in many ways. The most formal way is for the number for the day, the month written in full or abbreviated words, and then the year as a two or four digit number (e.g. 12 November 2013—that's the most formal way). It's more common to be written all as numbers, however, in the format day month year, where day and month are two digit numbers, but the year can either be a two digit or four digit number. The punctuation between can either be a dash, slash or full stop. The most common of these is probably the same as you guys: dd/mm/yyyy – at least so far as computers go. Best, Nic On 12 Nov 2013, at 8:32 pm, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So just out of curiosity, what does the Australian date format look like? > Americans use month month dash day day dash year year, as far as I'm aware. > In our country, which is the Netherlands in Europe, we use day day slash > month month slash year year. Because my computer is always set to language > US, but the region is Netherlands, I'm not surprised the voices are having > trouble speaking dates, because on my machine, I created the date conflict > myself because I want my machine to be US, but not my dates, to communicate > naturally with my fellow native Dutch speakers. > > How do you write your dates in Australia? > Paul. > On Nov 12, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Why don't you Americans start writing your dates the right way around then >> you wouldn't have any problem. ;) >> >> Seriously though, changing the date format in system preferences might solve >> some of your problems. If Mail displayed the received/sent date in the >> Australian format, then Karen would read it correctly. However, she would >> still mess up dates that are in the US format in other places. >> >> On 12 Nov 2013, at 12:47 pm, alia robinson <ali...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> That’s kind of what I thought. It says mail I got two days ago is october >>> 11 since it is reading the 9 as october and the 11 which should be november >>> as the day of the week instead. >>> >>> Alia >>> On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I don’t think that is the problem. Most Nuance voices do their own date >>>> formatting whenever they think they need to, which gets very annoying. Not >>>> only are dates formatted differently for different regions, but often the >>>> date formatting is inappropriate. For instance, I currently have Dropbox >>>> 2.4.6, which Ava says normally. Serena, though, always told me I had >>>> Dropbox “the second of April, 2006” or something similar. To answer the >>>> question, though, I am pretty sure there is nothing to be done since the >>>> logic for dates, money amounts, and so on is all part of the individual >>>> voice. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
