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MellowFish · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:40 am Post subject:

a brief aside...

speaking of sorting, I took a programming class and the only thing useful I got out of it was sorting algorithms. It turns out that some of them work much better in person than in the computer. So now instead of simply sorting papers I have to grade by finding all the a', then all the b's, I break the stack into three, sort each stack, and then merge them. It sounds nerdy to the extreme but it works fantastically. I can now sort a stack of 200 papers in mere minutes.

... aaaaand now back to dates and such
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PeteMoss · Guest

For writing the date out I prefer DD/MM/YYYY

When other people have to read what I write I usually do: Month (written out, not abbreviated) DD YYYY

For computer sorting I do YYYY-MM-DD
That way all the years and months are grouped together.

Keign · Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 2073 Location: The Blue Nowhere

I was just struck by the realization that we would rather debate something as trivial as the order with which day, month, and year are written than discuss the comic.
I feel as if we've insulted Tat.
But then again, it wasn't really all that glorious of a comic, I suppose.

CoolChristian · Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 360

i assume that everybody read at least some of Tat's Notes From the Resistance? well, every one has the date in some different way, and i just remembered that now.

watch, everybody knew that and assumed that everyone else did, too. ahh well, ill point it out in case theres some other noob.
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falsedef · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 20

yyyy/mm/dd is the most logical, which has been said already. It leaves no ambiguity for both chronological sorting and date representation (since yyyy/dd/mm is rare, or nonexistent). However, it's more likely to be written YYYY-MM-DD. Computers work even better with metric time.

However, falsedef will let you in on the American nerd secret: today's date is B.1C.7D6

Sam the Eagle · Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 2275 Location: 192.168.0.1

lily · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 1531 Location: worcester, ma

i've always seen it as...

in english, we say: november 27th
hence, 11/27

in french, they say:
le 27 novembre
hence, 27/11

same in spanish:
el 27 noviembre
27/11

filecore · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject:

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kame · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2565 Location: Alba Nuadh

For sorting the japanese way is the best, for every day use Nov. 26, 2008 should be fine. Most forms you're required to fill out will specify the desired format.

No thread hijacking, the comic was awesome. Poor crimmy needs some shades!
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