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Strange Dates on WinWorld

ThumpThump
edited March 2007 in Site Issues
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.

Thump

Comments

  • BODBOD
    It's set to UK date settings O.o
  • DuffDuff
    Day / Month / Year

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

    Thump
  • BlueSunBlueSun
    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
  • BODBOD
    You're American and have been taught that way, of course the other way doesn't make sense :P
  • alexzarachalexzarach
    In England, it's 14th March 2007, not 14 March 2007. March 14 2007 doesn't make any sense.
  • DuffDuff
    If everybody would use metric, then yes BlueSun, shit would work better.
  • BlueSunBlueSun
    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)
  • BODBOD
    AMerica has to be different too. lol imperial.
  • DuffDuff
    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).
  • alexzarachalexzarach
    We're slowly switching to litres and kilometres from miles, yards and pints.
  • alexzarachalexzarach
    Street signs are now translated into Polish for all our immegrants!
  • BODBOD
    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" :|.
  • ThumpThump
    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.

    Thump
  • Ka0sKa0s
    Duff just wanted to see 13/3/7 but now he wants to see 3.14
  • alexzarachalexzarach
    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
  • DuffDuff
    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.
  • QQ
    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
  • BashBash
    This is funny, some people are treating dates like a religion... OMGUSUKCUZUDUNTUSEOURWAY
  • QQ
    Calm down, it seems to thus far be a fairly friendly rivalry between varying countries.

    -Q
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