Strange Dates on WinWorld

Thump

I just happened to notice that the dates are wrong in the news
on the WinWorld site. The first item is dated:
"Windows 98 SE Upgrade in News and Announcements (7 Replies)
Q, 12/03/07"
whick is like a peek into the future.

One was a new month I haven't heard of yet:
""Sakana" Download Server Removed in News and Announcements (0 Replies)
Duff, 28/02/07"

I have no idea why they aren't rendering properly.

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BOD

It's set to UK date settings O.o

Duff

Day / Month / Year

That's how I write it numerically most of the time.

Thump

Whoops! Sorry! I should have figured out the 28 had to be the
day but I didn't get it right off. It's new to me, I don't think I've
ever noticed that before.

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BlueSun

Which is really confusing and doesn't make sense anyways. It's supposed to be month / day / year so it matches how you write the whole date out.

March 14, 2007

14 march 2007 makes no sense!

14/03/2007 makes no sense!

if anything it should be year / month / day

Year
|
- Month
|
- Day

either way, its confusing to see the dates the other way. I wish people everywhere would adopt one format for things like this. (People are going to say lol metric, I just know it!)

Yeah, nonsense ranting ftw :P

BOD

You're American and have been taught that way, of course the other way doesn't make sense :P

alexzarach

In England, it's 14th March 2007, not 14 March 2007. March 14 2007 doesn't make any sense.

Duff

If everybody would use metric, then yes BlueSun, shit would work better.

BlueSun

I don't see how. I mean its like the Month is the main heading and the day is the subheading.

UK always has to be different, like driving on the left :P (when most of the world drives on the right)

BOD

AMerica has to be different too. lol imperial.

Duff

Driving on whatever side really doesn't matter. Nova Scotia drove on the left until the 1920s.

But measurements and all that stuff really needs a fully adopted standard, instead of having the US use imperial (and the UK still using MPH instead of km/h).

alexzarach

We're slowly switching to litres and kilometres from miles, yards and pints.

alexzarach

Street signs are now translated into Polish for all our immegrants!

BOD

HAha yeah. We even have polish food aisles in supermarkets too.

And NO! MPH kilos etc yes. but not pints.

I'm not gonna order "550ml of beer" .

Thump

BlueSun wrote:

if anything it should be year / month / day

Yeah, that's what I use on the computer. If you use the date in
your folder names in that order, it'll be listed in chronological
order when viewed by name.
On checks and stuff I conform with the US was of putting the
month first. If I put the day first I put in "of" like the 14th
of March.

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Ka0s

Duff just wanted to see 13/3/7 but now he wants to see 3.14

alexzarach

BOD wrote:

And NO! MPH kilos etc yes. but not pints.

I'm not gonna order "550ml of beer" .

It was reportede in the Daily Mail last year, and my local newsagents have switched to litres. Although off topic, our political correctness is annoying:

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=3561

Duff

Informally, it'll always be what people are used to. Canada's been metric for a good 40 years now and people still use feet, inches, etc.

Q

All I can say is we NEARLY beat the French, while we were busy beating everyone else:

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html

and

http://www.secretservice.gov/money_history.shtml

But, we didn't so, we are where we are now...

-Q

Bash

This is funny, some people are treating dates like a religion... OMGUSUKCUZUDUNTUSEOURWAY

Q

Calm down, it seems to thus far be a fairly friendly rivalry between varying countries.

-Q