2014-12-21, 19:36 | Link #36365 |
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I agree with all of those but the Date one. In what way is dd.mm.yy superior to mm.dd.yy? Sure, I get that days become months become years, but when talking people generally would say the month first unless they're in the 17th century or something.
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2014-12-21, 19:45 | Link #36366 |
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That's just because you are used to that, let's just say it would be so much better if there was a standard valid for all the world. Whenever I see something like 04/08/14 I can never understand which date it actually is.
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2014-12-21, 19:53 | Link #36367 | |
I disagree with you all.
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YY-MM-DD or DD-MM-YY. Pick one. (I like YY-MM-DD as it's more easily sorted, but both are logical.) Going MM-DD-YY is like writhing one hundred twenty three "231". It's ridiculous. |
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2014-12-21, 19:55 | Link #36368 | |
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That said, I have no issues with yy.mm.dd. That also feels logical when taking into account the different ways countries write dates. I think banks use that method, but can't recall. |
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2014-12-21, 20:00 | Link #36369 |
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
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I'm not American. I say "8 avril". And it's not a matter of "how it's said", it a matter of how it's organized as positional writing. Instead of assigning values to positions from most to least (123), or least to most (321), you went second biggest, least, most. As I said, it makes no sense. And I'd read Jan Poo's example as "4th of August".
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2014-12-21, 20:11 | Link #36370 | |
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Most languages that I know say the day first, I actually don't know what English people do though.
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2014-12-22, 01:38 | Link #36378 | |
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So I'll have to feed her and pay for every one of her thongs? Doesn't sound hard... Now excuse me, I'm about to take my flight to Japan!
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2014-12-22, 02:44 | Link #36380 |
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As an American, I'm just going to say that month before day is mainly due to ease of speech. It's quicker and easier for us to say "April 25th" than it is to say "the 25th of April", 'cause saying "25 April" just sounds odd to us, language-wise. So we end up writing our dates out in the same manner.
Obviously it's going to sound different depending on the language. Ultimately y'all are arguing over something stupid.
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