Renegrade Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Off topic, but yes we use MM/DD/YYYY, which is frankly nonsensical. I prefer YYYY-MM-DD since it alphabetizes documents into chronological order correctly on a computer.Apologetically continuing the off-topicness here, but I have to say thumbs-up for that second format (ISO 8601) and it's autosort goodness. I tend to use it too, although the format I was taught long ago was DD-MM-YYYY..(date +%F for teh win!~ Also good to know that my date format information is somewhat um, up to date.. heh) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelsteele3 Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Wait did he say "all in all" twice? Does he have two MAIN reasons to hate it? Is this possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakota2063 Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 I know the when I was signing up for the military, we used a mm/dd/yy method, which is what I', used to. I have sen many where its dd/mm/yyyy, but that usually throws me through a loop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantab Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 My understanding is that the British usage of dd/mm/yy versus the American mm/dd/yy reflects how people in the different countries say dates. Here in Britain we normally say "14th of February" rather than "February the 14th" - I believe Americans normally say the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brotoro Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Like the 4th of July?But, yeah...that's old usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alshain Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Is this still on the date thing two pages later? You guys sure do know how to follow the wrong rabbit trails Can't we all just agree that when someone says 0.9, you know what they meant? I think you've all lost the topic of the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Okay, this thread hasn't been anywhere near the topic for a long time. Move on, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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