Why does America display the date MM/DD/YYYY.

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Atheus
No no, you guys have a crime called j-walking, no one else does. Why? It's only crossing the road ffs.

We invented the road and road system and the Car. We can do whatever we like.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: Atheus

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: RichUK
haha.

This brings me onto yet another illogical subject.

I?ve driven in America and I hated it. Sometimes I just felt like using the crossroads on International Drive as roundabout

I don?t like the idea at all, you?re committed if you take a wrong turn.

And what is the J walking thing all about :shocked:

On a side note, I do realise we differ in culture

J walking because we hate walking to the crossroads or waiting for the light when there is clearly no car coming.

As for the committed wrong turn thing, drive with a sense of direction. Not to mention the U-turn exists for a reason.

No no, you guys have a crime called j-walking, no one else does. Why? It's only crossing the road ffs.

crossing a road where and when you have no right to cross could result in a fatal accident. to keep costs down, and keep idiots from suing people driving, there are jay-walking rules.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Atheus
No no, you guys have a crime called j-walking, no one else does. Why? It's only crossing the road ffs.

We invented the road and road system and the Car. We can do whatever we like.

actually, i dont think we invented any of those...

we did make them alot better though

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: spidey07
We invented the road and road system and the Car.

Oh no you didn't, all those things ware invented in Europe.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Atheus
No no, you guys have a crime called j-walking, no one else does. Why? It's only crossing the road ffs.

We invented the road and road system and the Car. We can do whatever we like.

actually, i dont think we invented any of those...

we did make them alot better though

America (Ford) made the first mass production car, the model T.

I?m not sure without looking it up who exactly made the first thing that resembled a car.

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: RichUK
I?m not sure without looking it up who exactly made the first thing that resembled a car.

Pretty sure the internal combustion engine was Britain, and the automobile Germany.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

daimler benz made the first car, if i recall correctly.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: Atheus

Originally posted by: RichUK
I?m not sure without looking it up who exactly made the first thing that resembled a car.

Pretty sure the internal combustion engine was Britain, and the automobile Germany.

Sounds good to me

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: BillyBatson
when it is in numercial order it goes dd/mm/yyyy but when it is spelled out it is month day year, because of the way you would say it

But don't you guys still display the date as MM/DD/YYYY?

See if I or anyone else in the UK (Not sure about the rest of Europe) were to spell out the date, it would be ?Day ? Month ? Year".

To me it makes more sense numerically.

No, UNIX time makes more sense numerically.

cc yy mm dd hh mm ss ___ (_ = millisecond)

20 07 01 07 13 48 32 524 = 2007/01/07 13:48:32.524

This way you can do a sort on the text equivalent of the date and it will sort in the correct date order as well. It is also represented in the same manner as numeric decimals, with the leftmost columns being the largest units, and the rightmost columns being the smallest units.

Your argument has nothing to do with "making more sense" and everything to do with "what I'm used to" / "how I was raised". And your sense of cultural superiority is misplaced.

So go put that sh1t in your pipe and smoke it.

 

[her209]

YOU ARE ALL WRONG.

It should be:

YYYY/MM/DD

 

[TheChort]

the American system of dating makes as much sense as the 24 hour day

 

[Jahee]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Because 30/1/06 just looks weird.

You don't say the 30th of January do you? No. It's January 30th.

I do..

 

[HardcoreRobot]

i prefer

YYYYMMDDHHMMSS

 

[SkyBum]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: ScottyB
Because the British drive on the wrong side of the road, and we do not want to be like them.

Hey, roundabouts > cross roads

Are you kidding me? Buncha people driving around in circles trying to get somewhere else......BRILLIANT!

Roundabouts can suck my circular elimination portal......

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: SkyBum

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: ScottyB
Because the British drive on the wrong side of the road, and we do not want to be like them.

Hey, roundabouts > cross roads

Are you kidding me? Buncha people driving around in circles trying to get somewhere else......BRILLIANT!

Roundabouts can suck my circular elimination portal......

I kid you not my yankee friend.

I read this on the back of a cereal packet. Therefore, I am right.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Because you lost the Revolution.

lol

lol yes

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: her209
YOU ARE ALL WRONG.

It should be:

YYYY/MM/DD

qf MOTHER ft

 

[redgtxdi]

PETER
I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.

JOANNA
NODS) WHAT'S THAT?

PETER
You see, they wrote all this bank software and to save space, they put
98 instead of 1998. So I go through these thousands of lines of code
and uh, it doesn't really matter. I, uh, I don't like my job. I don't
think I'm gonna go anymore.

JOANNA
You're just not gonna go?

PETER
Yeah.

JOANNA
Won't you get fired?

PETER
I don't know. But I really don't like it so I'm not gonna go.

JOANNA
LAUGHS) SO YOU'RE GONNA QUIT?

PETER
No, no, not really. I'm just gonna stop going.

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: her209
YOU ARE ALL WRONG.

It should be:

YYYY/MM/DD

Right, but DDMMYYYY still makes more sense than MMDDYYYY.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: redgtxdi
PETER
I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.

JOANNA
NODS) WHAT'S THAT?

PETER
You see, they wrote all this bank software and to save space, they put
98 instead of 1998. So I go through these thousands of lines of code
and uh, it doesn't really matter. I, uh, I don't like my job. I don't
think I'm gonna go anymore.

JOANNA
You're just not gonna go?

PETER
Yeah.

JOANNA
Won't you get fired?

PETER
I don't know. But I really don't like it so I'm not gonna go.

JOANNA
LAUGHS) SO YOU'RE GONNA QUIT?

PETER
No, no, not really. I'm just gonna stop going.

New job in the Taco Bell, configuring the date to display correctly on all the till receipt printers?

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

logical:

YYYY/MM/DD

Why? It sorts by date in this manner .... I name files using this convention all the time.

 

[GeekDrew]

ISO Standards FTW.

Originally posted by: fanerman91
When I have to date things on the computer, I go: YYYY-MM-DD

That way, everything is in chronological order... from 1995 to 2007 or whenever. I think that's the most logical.

When I write the date on checks and that junk, I go with the tried and true MM DD, YYYY.

If I type it out, particularly if I'm working with it in some kind of spreadsheet or etc., it is always YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS. On checks or etc., handwritten, I use DD MMM YYYY.

Originally posted by: spidey07
You don't say the 30th of January do you? No. It's January 30th.

Some of us do...

 

[OSX]

Originally posted by: Atheus
We got it right the first time:

seconds:minutes:hoursays:months:years

The obvious order.

Why swap days and months?

It makes more sense when you write it out. Saying January 7th is more natural than 7 January.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: OSX

Originally posted by: Atheus
We got it right the first time:

seconds:minutes:hoursays:months:years

The obvious order.

Why swap days and months?

It makes more sense when you write it out. Saying January 7th is more natural than 7 January.

Only because you've been brought up that way.
For me saying 7th of January is more natural.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: SkyBum

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: ScottyB
Because the British drive on the wrong side of the road, and we do not want to be like them.

Hey, roundabouts > cross roads

Are you kidding me? Buncha people driving around in circles trying to get somewhere else......BRILLIANT!

Roundabouts can suck my circular elimination portal......

I kid you not my yankee friend.

I read this on the back of a cereal packet. Therefore, I am right.

I would have to agree, traffic circles at busy intersections make traffic flow much better. However, if there is heavy ped. traffic, traffic circles make it much, much worse.