Journal entry dating

[Dave S]

Like such:

 

Saturday, March 20^th 12:16^am

 

^{I usually only include the year for the first journal entry of that year.}

 

 

[drifting]

(11:56 pm) (S).19.03.02011

Edmonton

Pel 805 Ang M ci

Sailor Rikyu Cha

 

So we've got:

 

• Time - in parentheses because I don't always write it. Letter for day of the week, also omitted occasionally, similar to rapid_butterfly's notation, but with a few idiosyncracies (explained below). DD day. Numeric MM month. Five digit Long Now Foundation style year. It moves from smaller to larger units of time. I used to have the same info reversed (year first) as many above have it, but I like the way the Long Now year looks at the end of the sequence, rather than at the beginning.
  
• Place.
  
• Pen and nib.
  
• Ink.
  

 

I write woensdag, 16-03-2011, 23u31. 1009,3hPa 5bft 4*C RL83% bewolkt, droog.

So that is day, date, time, barometric pressure, wind in beaufort, temperature, relative humidity, clouded, dry

Wow.

 

 

3/17/11 ( R ) where ( R ) is for Thursday (M T W R F Sa Su)

 

I first saw the above abbreviations when I went to university, but I was unsatisfied with the Sa & Su, so I switched to S (Saturday) & D (Sunday = Dimanche - I was living in Montreal at the time), and once I'd used one French substitution, I switched R to J (Thursday = Jeudi) for the sake of internal consistencey. Been making calendars and writing dates like that (M T W J F S D) for years now.

 

I recognize my dating system is a little unconventional, but I'm not too concerned with future generations or anyone else needing to make sense of what I've scrawled: writing for posterity I am not!

 

Ryan.

 

p.s. sidheblessed, did you ever imagine the depth and variety of answers you'd get to this 'boring' question?

 

Ryan.

Edited March 20, 2011 by drifting

[eliaselrod]

Private journaling - 2011-03-20; 2125

Writing for others - March 20th, 2011; 9:15 PM

[mstone]

If I didn't use modern/sensible ISO 8601 format, I'd probably go with something traditional, like "decimo tertio Kalendas Apriles MMDCCLXIV ab urbe condita est".

[ExcaliburZ]

I kind of like the idea of including location, time and weather.

[InkyBrian]

I'm a big fan of 16 March 2011. No time, day or other. I like to walk the line between being formal and succinct.

[LedZepGirl]

For me this is how it goes: Sunday 20 March 2011: With a space between the name of the day and the number of the day.

 

Sunday 20 March 2011

 

^^^Like that^^^

 

Edited to add- It's not working right. :embarrassed_smile:

Edited March 20, 2011 by LedZepGirl

[Pensfan]

Currently I use this in the top right most corner: March 16, 2011

 

However after reading this thread, today I am going to start adding the day, using the 1/2, 2/2 designation for subsequent pages, and move the heading to the left corner for better spacing and not having to guess where to start the primary heading to make it line up perfectly right justified... my OCD couldn't take it if the spacing had to be corrected or if the line ended to soon!! haha

 

Page 1: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 1/2 (left justified)

Page 2: 03.16.2011 2/2 (right justified)

 

There... heading 1 is left justified, headings 2, 3, etc are left justified as they are easier to space for right justification and it also sets the two apart for easy glancing at what is a continued page or a new day.

 

Edited March 20, 2011 by Pensfan

[Pens Woods]

For my daily journal entries:

-Skip a line from previous entry

-Right side of line: Day, Month,Date,Year (all written out in MB Irish Green & underlined)

-Sample: Monday, Mar. 21, 2011

-Next line: weather information and time in MB Irish Green

-Next line: journal entries in ink color of pen for the day

-Page 2: Top right margin numerical date: 3-21-11 Con't...

This organization works for me as I can easily find previous entries.

For my "Pen, Ink, Paper Journal" and "Writing Journal" I record the numerical date for each day's entry.

[Hellmark]

Month/Date/Year. 3/21/11

 

I write the date on stuff all day long, so I keep it short.

[empyrean]

March 21, 2011 Monday 5:54 pm

[lingling]

I write the dates and time on the top left hand corner of the page.

I would write the gregorian calendar date in English and Arabic numbers, followed by the date of the lunar calendar in Chinese and the zodiac animal of the year, then by the time:

 

22 March 2011, 二月十八日二零一一年﹣兔年, 7.49 am

 

If there is a special celebration, festival, birthday, I would write it after the time, in Chinese or English depending on the event. Like Chinese new year or hungry ghost festival would be in Chinese while Christmas or someone's birthday would be in English.

 

Hmm but now that I've read how you guys write the dates, I feel like including the location and weather as well~

Edited March 22, 2011 by lingling

[Nibson]

Tuesday 28/03/2011 - Putting the location in with the date sounds like what a professional academic might get into the habit of doing, because full academic citations include the place of publication. I don't know that for sure, just speculating.

[Bugg]

Where does everyone date them? At the beginning? At the signature?

 

I prefer to include everything at the signature, and separate each entry by only a few lines. It gives my journals a more filled look, which I prefer.

 

Format:

Signed,

Bugg, April 1st 2011.

 

If there is anything strange about the weather then I usually mention it in my entry. I like to write them almost like stories. I don't like to include times that I wrote, because sometimes I'm writing them after midnight and go through events, which happened the day prior, or over the course of more than one day. Like I'm at a club from 7 pm to 3 am and write about it a 4 am. Times of any given event is normally implied. I think this takes away any ambiguity as to when the events happened opposed to when the entry was written.

[Bill]

Stardate -311749.34281456104

[dmmcf]

I've gravitated to something like this:

 

Friday, 1 April 2011, 20:15. Talbot Lab.

Pelikan M200, F. Diamine Chocolate Brown.

 

It probably conforms to no standard even in its details. :-)

 

If the weather is notable (inside or out...Talbot Lab is an old building), I'll write about it in the entry. Routinely logging temperature and precipitation makes this feel too much like work.