Date format? Need better description.

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Hello.
I just added a New title, and the help text says:
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Miscellaneous Link
(...)
* Important: Have you correctly formatted the description?

website.com - description (date if known) (language if not English)

Examples:

Variety - article (12/02/09)
Facebook - fan site
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Is it possible to change the example date here and other places where date is mentioned to a date where the day is over 12?

Because for me not being an American it is not obvious from the example in which place the date and the month is. If the date were for example 20 it is obvious that that means the day since there are only 12 months ;)

Different Countries have different rules as to if the date or the month is first.

(If some have different placing of the year I don’t know but if so the year should be written in full 4 digits.)

Just a thought!

/Kristin

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Kristin

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Posted 2 years ago

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2 years ago
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Peter, Champion

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I agree. In fact, I think a different date format should be recommended, one that is clear to everyone.
2 years ago
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Jeorj Euler

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Hi, Kristin. The description should be more like what is presented on https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/links-to-external-sites/G3FNEK9DW6TXW87J#MSC.
2 years ago
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Meredith, Employee

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Hi Kristin,

I have filed a ticket with our data editors to look into the form and take any action necessary.

Thanks
Meredith
2018-07-15T22:31:12+00:00
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Kristin

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Thank you :)
2018-07-16T23:59:49+00:00
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Jeorj Euler

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Hi, Meredith. It might interest you to know that there is a discordance between the tips message integrated into miscellaneous "Links to Other Sites" section of the title profile editing form and that of the name profile editing form. The one for titles instructs contributors to apply a date format like the date "29 February 2016", whereas the one for names instructs contributors to apply a date format like presumably the date "02/29/16".

Exhibit T:
 

Exhibit N:
 
2 years ago
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Josie, Employee

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Hi Kristin,

We apologize for the delay in fixing this. This date has now been changed to a clearer format:



Thanks for your patience while we resolved this! 

Best wishes,
Josie
2018-11-04T00:23:54+00:00
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Kristin

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I know things like this take time, thanks for fixing :-) And thanks for the update :-)  Wish you a great Winter! 
/Kristin
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