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Geek Culture / Difference between english uk and english USA? In Media.

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Jeku
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Posted: 11th Dec 2008 03:02
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My old boss made us write dates as so: 980510 = May 10th, 1998. Confusing.


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draknir_
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Posted: 11th Dec 2008 04:02
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dd/mm/yy ftw, I definitely prefer to say "10th December, 2008"
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mm0zct
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Posted: 11th Dec 2008 04:13
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Again I say 10th of December.

Computers often use year/month/day because it makes sense in a numbering system, most significant/../least significant, can extend all the way down to ms and a sort by time works fine with standard alphanumeric sorting.

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Haven Studios
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Posted: 12th Dec 2008 01:12
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I write dates like 12/11/08 also I just went to canada and I saw a kraft dinner....

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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 12th Dec 2008 02:10
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Quote: "I write dates like 12/11/08 also "


So do I. That's the 12th of November 2008.

Every rational number system is heirarchical - either ascending or descending.

You'd probably need to go back to the Romans to get a numbering system as daft as the standard US/Canadian date format.

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Quote: "I write dates like 12/11/08 also I just went to canada and I saw a kraft dinner...."


Did you buy/eat it?

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Posted: 13th Dec 2008 07:37
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Day/Month/Year is the right way, and most logical.
why say the month and then the day, when I want the date, I now the year, so its last, the month, one doesnt get confused on the month, but the number in the month, I otfen forget that, and its the most important, so it goes first. Its ordered in usefullness and importance. When I see the month first, I think, wow, you dont say, why is the month so important to Americans that they have it first.

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