Dates for Television Shows - Domestic Policy & Foreign Affairs Channel • Worldaffairs.VideoSift: Online Video *Quality Control

6 months ago • 252 views

There are a number of popular shows that air on television that frequently make it on the sift and are region blocked --notably, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. Since the commentary of the hosts and content of the show is news based, it might be handy for those in region-blocked countries (Canada, other countries...) if the date of the episode was included in their descriptions for others to find in mirrored sites of country specific sites like thecomedynetwork.ca or other sources.

Though posting dates are always available, I thought this courtesy might also be useful with many news videos as well.

Thoughts?

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Yes, a simple (dd/mm/yy) would be great in them all. If there's no room in the title, just put it in the description.

written by gwiz665

| 6 months ago | CH

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That's a *quality idea.

written by Sarzy

| 6 months ago | CH

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Awarding notarobot with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by Sarzy.

written by siftbot

| 6 months ago | CH

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>> ^gwiz665:
Yes, a simple (dd/mm/yy) would be great in them all. If there's no room in the title, just put it in the description.

Um i'm going to have to disagree and say it should be in a simple mm/dd/yy format

written by rottenseed

| 6 months ago | CH

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to avoid confusion between different conventions, how about dd/month/yyyy format?

ie. 15 March 2009; 29 June 2014

written by SlipperyPete

| 6 months ago | CH

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Why not just flick on Hotspot Shield? It's bound to be much quicker.

I mean it's no problem to me, I'll be sure to include it next time I sift anything from there.

written by RedSky

| 6 months ago | CH

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Rottenseed: You americans with your weird orders... this is the imperial system all over again! dd/mm/yy is the logical choice, short of yy/mm/dd.

written by gwiz665

| 5 months 4 weeks ago | CH

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My vote is for (yyyy.mm.dd) -- While Americans have a tendency for mm/dd/yy while others use dd/mm/yy, to my knowledge everyone uses yyyy/mm/dd when the year is up front. Plus, if for any reason these titles end up being sorted by date, having them in y.m.d format ensures they will sort correctly. Using '.' instead of '/' as the separator is a stylistic choice; when I originally took French I was told that while '/' is used as a date separator here, '.' is used overseas. I don't know how true that is, but I typically use '.' for any international format as a result.

written by davidraine