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in Canada, today is 11/9

SandEagle

SandEagle

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those jokers have a 2 month headstart on us and they still can't get it right. or maybe they're 10 months behind? hmmm
 
SandEagle said:
those jokers have a 2 month headstart on us and they still can't get it right. or maybe they're 10 months behind? hmmm
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It backwards and counter intuitive. When you talk you say it's December 25th, you don't say it's the 25th of December.

ON my computer right now it says 12/09/2012, retarded.

How did we get this way? It's the one contribution from a province called Nova Scotia, we stick with it because... well it's their only contribution to Canada aside from immigrating to find jobs in the more modern parts of Canada.
 
Northern Lawn said:
It backwards and counter intuitive. When you talk you say it's December 25th, you don't say it's the 25th of December.

ON my computer right now it says 12/09/2012, retarded.

How did we get this way? It's the one contribution from a province called Nova Scotia, we stick with it because... well it's their only contribution to Canada aside from immigrating to find jobs in the more modern parts of Canada.
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Lol Manitoba
 
I am in Canada and we use mm/dd/yyyy. From what I understand it depends on the province.

Prior to Northern Lawn mentioning it, I thought the only province that did dd/mm/yyyy was Quebec, and they're always strange.
 
dd/mm/yyyy is mainly a french thing not specific to Quebec. Well not really, mm/dd/yyyy is a silly American backwards thing similar to the Imperial system while the rest of the world uses dd/mm/yyyy. Even Britain uses dd/mm/yyyy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

The default date format used by Microsoft Windows for English Canada for all-numeric dates (short-dates) is DD/MM/YYYY, and for long dates is MMMM D, YYYY in Windows XP and MMMM-DD-YY in later versions; for French Canada it is YYYY-MM-DD for short-dates and D MMMM YYYY for long-dates.
 
actuarial said:
I am in Canada and we use mm/dd/yyyy. From what I understand it depends on the province.

Prior to Northern Lawn mentioning it, I thought the only province that did dd/mm/yyyy was Quebec, and they're always strange.
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The French are strange for doing it correctly?
 
Firebot said:
dd/mm/yyyy is mainly a french thing not specific to Quebec. Well not really, mm/dd/yyyy is a silly American backwards thing similar to the Imperial system while the rest of the world uses dd/mm/yyyy. Even Britain uses dd/mm/yyyy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

The default date format used by Microsoft Windows for English Canada for all-numeric dates (short-dates) is DD/MM/YYYY, and for long dates is MMMM D, YYYY in Windows XP and MMMM-DD-YY in later versions; for French Canada it is YYYY-MM-DD for short-dates and D MMMM YYYY for long-dates.
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I think its silly the US uses MM/DD/YYYY when most of the world uses DD/MM/YYY

KMFJD said:
The French are strange for doing it correctly?
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well. they are French anything they do is strange.
 
actuarial said:
If correctly is different from the norm, then yes. It also depends on your definition of 'correctly'.

Would it be strange for a gas station in the US to post its prices in Litres?
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What I think is really strange is that Britain has litres and petrol but also Miles and inches.

I only know temperatures in Celcius 33C is HOT, 20C is room temp etc. but height I only know in feet and inches and weight only in pounds and ounces.
 
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