Date format
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Hello! i was wondering where the format mm-dd-yy comes from? i can understand the logic in yy-mm-dd or reverse but who came up with the idea of putting the month first /Stefan
Probably because its in the same order as the long date format, September 13th, 2010 // Rock
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Hello! i was wondering where the format mm-dd-yy comes from? i can understand the logic in yy-mm-dd or reverse but who came up with the idea of putting the month first /Stefan
we use dd-mm-yy here Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank
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Probably because its in the same order as the long date format, September 13th, 2010 // Rock
CLaW wrote: Probably because its in the same order as the long date format, September 13th, 2010 Well, he says looking at some documents where full dates were used and how I say them, I put my long dates in this order: [Day-of-Week-name] the [Day-of-month] of [Month-of-Year] [Year] e.g. Tuesday the 26th of February, 2002. On another issue, why do the Americans not use "and" in their speech for large numbers? [uk] One hundred and eighty [us] One hundred eighty Regards, Ray
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we use dd-mm-yy here Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank
heathens.. :) -c
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Hello! i was wondering where the format mm-dd-yy comes from? i can understand the logic in yy-mm-dd or reverse but who came up with the idea of putting the month first /Stefan
still better than czech (== old slavic) month names they don't use january but leden (led == ice) etc. i will never remember all 12 names and in correct order just before few years they moved from vterina to sekunda (second, time interval) t!
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CLaW wrote: Probably because its in the same order as the long date format, September 13th, 2010 Well, he says looking at some documents where full dates were used and how I say them, I put my long dates in this order: [Day-of-Week-name] the [Day-of-month] of [Month-of-Year] [Year] e.g. Tuesday the 26th of February, 2002. On another issue, why do the Americans not use "and" in their speech for large numbers? [uk] One hundred and eighty [us] One hundred eighty Regards, Ray
Ray Hayes wrote: On another issue, why do the Americans not use "and" in their speech for large numbers? It's called language evolution ;) Sonorked as well: 100.13197 jorgen
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Ray Hayes wrote: On another issue, why do the Americans not use "and" in their speech for large numbers? It's called language evolution ;) Sonorked as well: 100.13197 jorgen
It's all about efficiency :) However, I've always thought it would be better to simply say the sequence as numbers. It eliminates much confusion ("fifty" or "fifteen"?), and takes less time, and gets rid of some really unneccessary words. Examples: 1956 = One-Nine-Five-Six 15 = One-Five
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] Geekn MadHamster Creations
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Hello! i was wondering where the format mm-dd-yy comes from? i can understand the logic in yy-mm-dd or reverse but who came up with the idea of putting the month first /Stefan
Walkerboh wrote: i was wondering where the format mm-dd-yy comes from? It's so we (the US) can measure it accurately in inches ;) -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
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It's all about efficiency :) However, I've always thought it would be better to simply say the sequence as numbers. It eliminates much confusion ("fifty" or "fifteen"?), and takes less time, and gets rid of some really unneccessary words. Examples: 1956 = One-Nine-Five-Six 15 = One-Five
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] Geekn MadHamster Creations
Domenic [CPUA 0x1337] wrote: However, I've always thought it would be better to simply say the sequence as numbers. It eliminates much confusion ("fifty" or "fifteen"?), and takes less time, and gets rid of some really unneccessary words. Examples: 1956 = One-Nine-Five-Six 15 = One-Five Argh... some of the Sofa and Car adverts already do that, is sounds so bad to me.. "The new Something-Or-Other, available now for only 4-9-9-5." leading me to scream to myself, "Just say nearly 5 thousand!!!" Regards, Ray
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Domenic [CPUA 0x1337] wrote: However, I've always thought it would be better to simply say the sequence as numbers. It eliminates much confusion ("fifty" or "fifteen"?), and takes less time, and gets rid of some really unneccessary words. Examples: 1956 = One-Nine-Five-Six 15 = One-Five Argh... some of the Sofa and Car adverts already do that, is sounds so bad to me.. "The new Something-Or-Other, available now for only 4-9-9-5." leading me to scream to myself, "Just say nearly 5 thousand!!!" Regards, Ray
Count the syllables Near-ly five thou-sand (5 syllables) Four Nine Nine Five (4 syllables) My way's better :P
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] Geekn MadHamster Creations
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Count the syllables Near-ly five thou-sand (5 syllables) Four Nine Nine Five (4 syllables) My way's better :P
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] Geekn MadHamster Creations
My gripe is not with how hard/easy it is to say.. it's with "why" the advertisers use the spelt-out number. They think that "4-9-9-9" sounds less than "five thousand". (I know there is a small amount different, but I tend to round such numbers to being the same when it comes to money) Such "tricks" in advertising do not work on me, infact they tend to put me off such a product! Regards, Ray