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Author:  RB [ Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Date format question
Damn, why am I writing "March 31. 2007", when Satis on his site writes it as "31. March 2007"? I thought both people of USA and UK use the format Month/Day/Year. Was I wrong?
Author:  pevil [ Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:31 pm ]
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yeah you are. UK uses day/month/year

Well if we're using numbers we do, e.g. 12/04/07 today. If writing it in words it would still using be written as 12th April or 12 April, but it is acceptable as April 12 as well.
Author:  RB [ Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:40 pm ]
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That's just a holy pwnage. Sat uses DMY format, pev uses DMY format, only I try to "be nice" on the people who use MDY, although I use DMY as well.

Anyone knows who insists on using MDY actually? :?
Author:  derf [ Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:22 pm ]
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Freeman wrote:
Anyone knows who insists on using MDY actually? :?


Retards who also insist on imperial scales.
Author:  Arathorn [ Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:10 pm ]
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Day - Month - Year here. I read from left to right, and I already know what year I'm in, normally I also know the month, so having that order leads me to the required information the soonest.
Author:  Satis [ Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:32 pm ]
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I use it because of the Army and because it makes the date more readable. Number Alpha Number is easier to read than having two numbers butting up against each other

31 March 2007. I find all pure number dates difficult to read. IE, 03/09/07. I deal enough with Canada and Europe that what exactly that means isn't really clear. March 9th or November 3rd?
Author:  RB [ Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:34 pm ]
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Satis wrote:
03/09/07 ... November 3rd?

I hope you meant "September". :P

Well thanks for the input. Even the fact you write "March 9th" and not "9th March" is telling that I'd better stick to the MDY on the English portal of my site.
Author:  derf [ Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:19 am ]
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Satis wrote:
I find all pure number dates difficult to read. IE, 03/09/07.


Agreed. I never liked that overly-compact. I often rebel and write 03-09-07 to make it slightly clearer.
Author:  Satis [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:11 am ]
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lol, yes, september, not november. :p

btw, on that note, I think they need to rename the months.

December = Dec = latin for TEN... so December should be the tenth month, not the damn twelfth. What's up with that? Ditto with September, October, November, etc. I don't mind having months named after dead Roman emperors, but if you're going to include latin in the month name, please make it correct.
Author:  Arathorn [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:53 pm ]
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According to Wikipedia, in the winter there weren't any months in Roman days, January and February were added later, and the rest of the months just shifted by two.
Author:  derf [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:21 pm ]
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That's actually interesting to know.
Author:  Arathorn [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:59 pm ]
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Indeed. Apparently the Romans didn't do anything in those months, otherwise they would have bothered naming them. From that we can conclude that the Romans didn't go skying in winter (or only in March). Very interesting indeed.
Author:  derf [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:30 pm ]
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Arathorn wrote:
Indeed. Apparently the Romans didn't do anything in those months, otherwise they would have bothered naming them. From that we can conclude that the Romans didn't go skying in winter (or only in March). Very interesting indeed.


Sounds like a very plausible theory. :D
Author:  Peltz [ Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:05 am ]
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Skying for romans, was that somekind of "catapult sport" :D
Author:  RB [ Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:13 am ]
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Peltz wrote:
"catapult sport"

That sounds to me more like baseball. "Catch it, boy!"
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