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There are few pains that match that one, in my book. Poor Criminy, he should've been more gradual in his acquisition of a life outside of his favored tomes. |
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Outer Limits reference? 
awesome.
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Sam the Eagle
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Evil day star, it hurts ussss
One cannot be a geek for that long and just says "my eyes hurts", way too simple.
ps : What is the reason behind the apparently akward way to put the date; yy/mm/dd or dd/mm/yy I can understand, but month first?. Just curious.
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| Yup, it's the American way. I've never understood it myself, but surely you must have seen it around? Like everything American, it's just so damned common nowadays. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:41 am Post subject: |
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Every year on and around september 11th my friend asks me what happened on november 9th. I say I don't know.
Photoreceptors adjusting. Please stand by. I love it. |
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| Twister87 wrote: | | Every year on and around september 11th my friend asks me what happened on november 9th. I say I don't know. |
Same thing happens here. Although, apparently a true story: one European company was doing transatlantic business and was being supplied by an American firm. Items kept arriving late or occasionally, very early. Eventually they worked it out - one was using, for example, 5/7/02 and the other was using 7/5/02; both meaning the same but apparently viewing the other's dates in their own format. They must have been embarrassed at the end.
Personally I've never understood it - I mean, day -> month -> year is logical, an ascending progression of time from the smallest iteration to the greatest. Just like hour -> minute -> second. You would never write the time hh:ss:mm, would you? NO LOGIC! |
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Yarko
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| Quote: | | What is the reason behind the apparently akward way to put the date; yy/mm/dd or dd/mm/yy I can understand, but month first?. Just curious. |
Dear Zeus, how old are you?
The japanese way is best for computer representation. That way we sort by year, month, and then day.
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ashcraftthepirate
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| Sam the Eagle wrote: | | ps : What is the reason behind the apparently akward way to put the date; yy/mm/dd or dd/mm/yy I can understand, but month first?. Just curious. |
mm/dd/yy is written as it would be spoken in abbreviated form:
November 27th, 2006
dd/mm/yy doesn't roll off the tongue quite as smoothly:
The 27th of November, 2006
The latter does make more sense for common usage, though.
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filecore
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| ashcraftthepirate wrote: | mm/dd/yy is written as it would be spoken in abbreviated form:
November 27th, 2006
dd/mm/yy doesn't roll off the tongue quite as smoothly:
The 27th of November, 2006 |
Ha! Nature versus nurture. dd/mm/yy rolls off my tongue very smoothly indeed and I have trouble with the American way, particularly when the ordinal is left out ("November 27, 2006"). It only seems awkward for you because you've grown up used to something different. Either method is only a matter of practice and getting used to it; however, the British (or at least non-US) method is more logical, and that's the single point in favour of one or the other. |
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Sam the Eagle
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Writing like one speak, that I can understand, thanks ash.
Yes, insert-your-brand-of, English is not my mother tongue. And after getting used to three, now almost four, different kinds, I get confused every now and then.
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MsFrisby
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Logic? We still use miles and gallons. Why would we want to be logical? We prefer tradition over logic, obviously.
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QuoVadis
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| Yarko wrote: | | The japanese way is best for computer representation. That way we sort by year, month, and then day. |
Logical!
If only Europeans and Americans could follow suit and stop using their silly traditions. 
LOGIC!
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ashcraftthepirate
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Until everyone reaches a consensus on the number format, I'm partial to writing the month in text...
27Nov2006
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| ashcraftthepirate wrote: | | 27Nov2006 |
Prepositions, ordinals, punctuation and spacing, please.
The 27th of November, 2006. |
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