The Importance of the Date Format on your Registration Certificate

[ScottK]

Our ISO9001 certificate, which is displayed prominently on our wall in the entry way and on our web site, says "Original Certification Date: 06/11/2007" and valid until 06/11/2010.

so we have customers asking if we've had our recertification audit yet because it's up soon.

problem is, it's not. It's due in November.
Our registrar used the DD/MM/YYYY format and all of our American customers are seeing it as MM/DD/YYYY

no, it's not earth shattering. Just a needless hassle that it has to be explained to so many customers.

I sent a request to our registrar to please spell out the month in the future.

 

[Cari Spears]

Our registrar used the DD/MM/YYYY format and all of our American customers are seeing it as MM/DD/YYYY

no, it's not earth shattering. Just a needless hassle that it has to be explained to so many customers.

I sent a request to our registrar to please spell out the month in the future.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing that. Our certificate dates are formatted like this: December 17, 2010.

 

[ScottK]

Coincedentally enough...

Just after I posted the above - I got an email from an Irish customer who had taken the 06/11/2010 date, assumed that since we're an American company it would be in the MM/DD/YYY format, and switched it around to 11/06/2010 in their tracking system.

so even they think we're due in a week.

 

[Sidney Vianna]

I sent a request to our registrar to please spell out the month in the future.

Tell them to comply with ISO 8601....