Sabretooth Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 It's DD/MM/YY, bitches. What gives man, no polls allowed on this goddamn zombie of a forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderQ Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 DD/MM/YY? Well, that makes sense...since we've been doing that forever!! Anyway, not much gives. No polls?! We need a moderator on this forum, dag nammit!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSR Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 It's DD/MM/YY, bitches. Hell to the yeah. Confusing as hell when you get all the yanky types giving it the MM/DD/YY treatment. Often I find myself thinking they've invented new months. i.e its the 4th day of the 18th month you say? Whats with that? I demand an explanation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 It's DD/MM/YY, bitches. Yes. This American MM/DD/YY system is confusing as hell. What gives man, no polls allowed on this goddamn zombie of a forum. That sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astor Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Bloody Colonials and their dating systems... DD/MM/YY is how it should be - MM/DD/YY is incredibly confusing - I can accept it for important dates (such as 9/11, but this often causes people to ask 'What happened on the 9th of November?'), but it's annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderQ Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Bloody Colonials??!! We're independent!! Yeah, this stuff gets confusing, but one can accept a system like that...even if the so-called 'bloody colonials' made it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 (such as 9/11, but this often causes people to ask 'What happened on the 9th of November?'), but it's annoying. 9/11 is three numbers and a slash. It is a meaningless piece of jargon. I believe you mean the World Trade Center attacks which took place on September 11th 2001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted March 18, 2009 Author Share Posted March 18, 2009 9/11 is three numbers and a slash. It is a meaningless piece of jargon. I believe you mean the World Trade Center attacks which took place on September 11th 2001. The September 11 attacks (often referred to as nine-eleven, written 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. You were saying...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 "Nine-eleven" is an equally meaningless load of fetid dingo's kidneys. I refuse to stand for this most rancid neologism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted March 18, 2009 Author Share Posted March 18, 2009 "Nine-eleven" is an equally meaningless load of fetid dingo's kidneys. I refuse to stand for this most rancid neologism. And you dismiss the press' techniques of manipulating the masses into making brands of terrorist acts and using handy catchphrases to incite moral panic? I don't know about, Darth InSidious, but I look at press and marketing techniques as a modern form of art worth analysing and savouring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSR Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Rabble rabble rabble! Angry mob, assemble! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 I, as an American imperialist, consider MM/DD/YYYY to be the optimal configuration for date-writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordOfTheFish Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 I, as an American imperialist, consider MM/DD/YYYY to be the optimal configuration for date-writing. And there you have it. I think it's configured MM/DD/YY because dates are read Month/Day/Year. Make sence to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW01 Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 I think it's configured MM/DD/YY because dates are read Month/Day/Year. Make since to me. Over here it's read day/month/year though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderQ Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Over here it's read day/month/year though! SW01, we are the Yanks, the bloody colonials...we always try to be different:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 I think it's configured MM/DD/YY because dates are read Month/Day/Year. Make since to me. Nonsince Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordOfTheFish Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 ^lol. I get it, took me a minute but I get it. Wrong word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderQ Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 ^lol. I get it, took me a minute but I get it. Wrong word. Hee hee, that's true, I just noticed that...high five, Yank! *High Fives* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M@RS Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 I'll go with the norm and say it should be written MM/DD/YY... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 I'll go with the norm and say it should be written MM/DD/YY... Wake up and smell the millipede stew, sheeple! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M@RS Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Wake up and smell the millipede stew, sheeple! At least I'm not a Lemming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 At least I'm not a Lemming... No, but you are an eggman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralPloKoon Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 The other date systems confuse me...darn American education is rotting my brain! Month/Day/Year is the only thing I know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSR Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Silly Americans. Put it this way. "it's the 4th day of the 12 month in the year 2012" or "It's the 12th month and the 4th day in the year 2012" DD/MM/YY FTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Silly Americans. Put it this way. "it's the 4th day of the 12 month in the year 2012" or "It's the 12th month and the 4th day in the year 2012" Except... we don't use it that way! It would never be read out loud like that. We'd just say: twelve four twentytwelve" or "December fourth, Twentytwelve." The arrangement of the dates is culturally implied and no one has any trouble understanding it. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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