01:02:03 - 04/05/06

[HateEternal]

Americans have this way of being stubborn about stupid things like date formats and measurements. I mean come on, what the hell is a foot any ways? And how illogical is the mile, most people can't even remember how many feet are in a mile. I guess basing everything on tens, one of the easiest numbers to work with, would just make _too_ much sense. To make things worse science in the states uses the metric system so then you have to deal with both. What the hell!? Someone dropped the ball on that one.

Stupid Americans!


- HateEternal, Stupid American (damn it) >_<

[sgould]

I'm waiting for the 4th of May

[Lt Major Burns]

my birthday was on the 2nd of april, 2006, mikuro

02/04/2006

second of the fourth... i'm Briddish.

[Lt Major Burns]

Originally Posted by HateEternal

Americans have this way of being stubborn about stupid things like date formats and measurements. I mean come on, what the hell is a foot any ways? And how illogical is the mile, most people can't even remember how many feet are in a mile. I guess basing everything on tens, one of the easiest numbers to work with, would just make _too_ much sense. To make things worse science in the states uses the metric system so then you have to deal with both. What the hell!? Someone dropped the ball on that one.

Stupid Americans!


- HateEternal, Stupid American (damn it) >_<

a mile is 1,760 yards. 3 ft in a yard.

[Perseus]

Yeah don't even get me started on Quarts and Pints.....ugh

[fryke]

Mikuro asked: "Do they say "2006 April 5" or "5 April 2006" in other countries?"

Yes. Feels very natural to call today "Sechster April Zweitausendsechs" (well, it's 02:29 here, so it's the 6th already...). I guess the alpha-numerically logical year-month-day is not often used when talking... I understand that the thing with dates is historically grown and a habit and hard to overcome, but as others have already said in this thread: It just makes so much sense - in computers more than ever. Whenever I write a news blurb on my short story webpage, I name the file "YYYYMMDD_title.txt", and when looking at the directory through FTP, sorted by name, I have the stories in the right order. Just as should be, no? (A "newer" date is always a higher number in the international date format, whereas with the American ordering, that's not the case.)

[hawki18]

We have used month day and year In my 54 years and see no need to go to the international format.

[fryke]

Yeah. That attitude will one day save the, erh, no, not the world. Erh... What was it: Ah yeah - Traditions and sh*t.