Unofficial Tex Murphy

We do yyyy/mm/dd a lot here, along with dd/mm/yyyy

I never quite understood putting the day in between the month and the year.

Frank wrote: I never quite understood putting the day in between the month and the year.

Damn straight! And I hate how Apple stole the "i" from Aluminium and put it at the front of all their products!

-Cub. =o)

Goddamn conspiracy, I tells ya.

LOL

Frank wrote:I never quite understood putting the day in between the month and the year.

Do you not say, "May 1st, 2009"? Do you not use that order in normal conversation more often than "The 1st of May, 2009" or "2009, May 1st"?

Leastwise, it makes more sense to Americans that way.

In my strange and exotic native tongue we use dd/mm/yyyy. Even in conversations. It's how the language flows.

-Fred

We always say things like the first of May, or the 6th March. I always wondered why the month/day is that way in the states. Is it just the states?

Jerry Dan wrote:

Frank wrote:I never quite understood putting the day in between the month and the year.

Do you not say, "May 1st, 2009"? Do you not use that order in normal conversation more often than "The 1st of May, 2009" or "2009, May 1st"?

Leastwise, it makes more sense to Americans that way.

Not in French, anyway. 1er Mai 2009, 24 Juin 2009

I don't know how the canadian anglos go about it though, never really thought of it.

Looks like I'll have to input the english speaking Canadian's input lol Canadians use the mm/dd/year format (05/1/2009) and we pronounce it May 1st 2009...

Really? All my federal paperwork have the dd/mm/yyyy format, including the passport.

How is it listed on your driver's license? Could it be a provincial thing?

I think all countries should be the same, some have metric others still have feet & inches.
Annoying if you ask me. I always though it was stupid to have different formats there has been times in the past when you have purchased a subscription based program & if you change the format in control panel the program tells your subscription has expired.

Does not happen now as much as the old days as microsoft has made changes in the initial setup of windows but in the old days you had to change the day & time format manually yourself.

It's like daylight saving hours different states start & end at different times & 1 state doesn't have it at all . But then thats queensland for you (monday one day tuesday the next)bit of warped aussie humor there.

True, but I guess it's partly nostalgia - I loved the fact that the other day I walked to the butchers shop and bought a pound of beef, then bought a pint of apple juice from the milkman. I don't understand 16oz of a drink - that's just weird. Starbucks here sell 16oz mugs - what is 16oz? I much prefer a pint.

I like the idea of weighing things in pounds rather than grams. We weigh ourselves in pounds and stone here, but our food is mostly in grams now; we measure things in centimeters and meters but also in inches and feet. If someone told me they were 160cm I'd have no idea what that was, but 5 foot ten I know.

I wish we still had 6p coins. It's kinda fun having something that's not metric.

I guess every country is different, but I'd hate every country to be the same. It would take away a lot of charm.