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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:32:50 PM EDT
10/19/08.
How the fuck does this make sense? The reason that the date should be written DD/MM/YY, like the rest of the sane world does, is because you go from the smallest time increment to the largest. Why? Because it's most useful to know which day it is, because most of us can keep track of the month. The most important feature in a date is the day, which is why it should come first. When you stick it in the middle dates become clunky and hard to read. The most frequently changing number in a series should be at the start or the end. Not in the middle. Americans are nuts. Write your dates logically. 19/10/08 
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:34:20 PM EDT
[#1]
Thats how I date everything,
DD/MM/YYYY Anything else drives me nuts. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:35:22 PM EDT
[#2]
Maybe because common speech here is October 18th when spoken.
Just a guess. Oh, and FUCK OBAMA!! 
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:36:06 PM EDT
[#3]
That how I do it in my classroom. The students have never said anything about it.
BTW, what other things ought we do to catch up with the countries that are behind us. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:36:49 PM EDT
[#4]
That. Plus we don't really care how the rest of the world does things. Metric dates... sheesh. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:37:16 PM EDT
[#5]
next you'll be trying to push us toward that Wacky Metric system
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:37:51 PM EDT
[#6]
I should beat you with a 1/2 inch drive (THATS RIGHT, INCH) breaker bar.
assuming of course you use the metric system. if not, well, ill still beat you with it, it just wont be as funny. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:37:57 PM EDT
[#7]
Please look at the Declaration of Independence: "July 4, 1776"
It was intentionally in a different order than the Brits. It's part of being rebellious. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:38:02 PM EDT
[#8]
I prefer my dates as 18OCT08 or 27JUL03, etc so on and so forth
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:38:37 PM EDT
[#9]
19OCT08
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:38:51 PM EDT
[#10]
Because we SAY "October 19, 2008"
Then abbreviate it that way. Anything else is a dumb as replacing the decimal point with a comma. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:39:57 PM EDT
[#11]
Different is good. Deal with it
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:40:13 PM EDT
[#12]
Everything should be in terms of second form January 1st 1970.
1224380788 |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:40:18 PM EDT
[#13]
It's why we rule the planet dude, none of you guys understand anything about the USA.
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:40:23 PM EDT
[#14]
The reason is simple. A date is written "October 19, 2008" in the United States. (IME Europeans largely use "19 October, 2008").
The "10/19/08" is consistent with the way a date is written in the U.S.. Its not hard to understand at all. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:40:29 PM EDT
[#15]
Yup |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:41:26 PM EDT
[#16]
Yeah, a consistent system for measurement. Real wacky. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:42:34 PM EDT
[#17]
20081018
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:42:50 PM EDT
[#18]
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:43:45 PM EDT
[#19]
  ETA: Fuck Obama |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:45:29 PM EDT
[#20]
I believe this is actually the proper way now. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:47:21 PM EDT
[#21]
That's the way we did it in the Military.
19OCT08 |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:48:30 PM EDT
[#22]
More crap from the poster down under
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:49:20 PM EDT
[#23]
+1 and 24 hour time too. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:49:24 PM EDT
[#24]
What fucks me up is when I see "8/10/07."
Is 8 the month or day? Since 1976, I've been writing it in the "10 August 2007" format. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:51:13 PM EDT
[#25]
We're fuckin' Americans, confusin' the shit out of Metric fucks for centuries
! Except 9 & 10mm, those are cool.
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:52:54 PM EDT
[#26]
October eighteenth twothousandeight. There. We don't want to be like the rest of the world. Although the left is pushing us that way
 Fuck Obama. 
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:53:13 PM EDT
[#27]
probably because its how a calendar works
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:54:47 PM EDT
[#28]
2008-10-17
You ever try to programmatically sort a list of dates using any *other* method? |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:54:59 PM EDT
[#29]
So do Aussies measure their manhood in millimeters?
PS: Your avatar has the symbol for inches in it. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:55:22 PM EDT
[#30]
You're from the land that gave the world the Koala 'bear', the 'Kangaroo' and 'Waltzing Matilda', and you give us shit over how we abbreviate the date? You guys need to get north of the equator more often. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:55:54 PM EDT
[#31]
Hey, we keep handicapping ourselves. Why haven't any of you caught up yet?
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:56:13 PM EDT
[#32]
Dingo ate his passport
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:56:39 PM EDT
[#33]
Our crappy computer system at work requires you to type in the date as YYYY/DD/MM
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:56:42 PM EDT
[#34]
That is ISO 8601 methodology and is used EXCLUSIVELY in technical writing. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:57:27 PM EDT
[#35]
October 19, 2008. That's how everybody says it. I think that's why we carry it over to the abbreviation.
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:57:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:57:59 PM EDT
[#37]
I used to piss of my high school teachers by writing everything military style 18OCT08. My english teacher especially didn't appreciate it.
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:58:06 PM EDT
[#38]
Check your Strunk and White The Elements of Style and get back to me.
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:58:36 PM EDT
[#39]
DAMN double post. With one in the middle too
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:58:53 PM EDT
[#40]
8291
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Posted: 10/18/2008 5:59:44 PM EDT
[#41]
We read dates "October 18th, 2008".
Therefore, 10-18-08 makes sense. If it was written 18-10-08, then I'd have to skip to the second number to be able to read it off as October 18th, 2008. That doesn't make sense to me.
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Posted: 10/18/2008 6:07:05 PM EDT
[#42]
Never thought to look. All I have is Keys For Writers by Ann Raimes. She lists both methods, but fails to choose one as desired. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 6:20:23 PM EDT
[#43]
So I'm not the only one? My phone displays that date format for work purposes if one of them handy-dandy gov't calenders isn't around. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 6:20:23 PM EDT
[#44]
That is the best. Any other method of writing dates makes filing harder and also makes sorting harder for both humans and computers. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 6:30:09 PM EDT
[#45]
ISO 8601 is for purely technical communications. The standard itself states that it does not apply to written forms of dates. Fortunately, the art of writing is not yet dead. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 6:39:34 PM EDT
[#46]
+1000 USA USA USA USA 
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Posted: 10/18/2008 6:41:27 PM EDT
[#47]
I use the Unix time stamp format, it's now approximately 1224384075
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Posted: 10/18/2008 6:42:11 PM EDT
[#48]
Don't like? Move to some some socialist gun banning country.
Oh wait, you are already there. |
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Posted: 10/18/2008 6:43:29 PM EDT
[#49]
Ouch!
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Posted: 10/18/2008 6:47:15 PM EDT
[#50]
Logically my foot. If somebody asked me what todays date is I would tall them it's "October the 19th" Not 19th October. Wright it like you say it |
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