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Posted on 08-09-10 02:25:43 PM

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	I'll see if I can remember to post exactly on time for this. Being PST, I still have 3 hours ____________________

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Posted on 08-09-10 02:27:02 PM

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	And we still have PM. ____________________

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Posted on 08-09-10 02:28:41 PM

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Posted on 08-09-10 02:37:31 PM

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Posted on 08-09-10 03:18:35 PM

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	I changed the thread title cause 05:06:07 08/09/10 sounds better. Shame I'll be at work. ____________________

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Posted on 08-09-10 03:22:05 PM (last edited by Orlandu at 08-09-10 12:22 PM)

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	I prefer 8/9/10 11:12. Cause thats in less than 2 hours now for me. I'll probably miss 05:06:07 since I don't post much in the evenings. ____________________

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Posted on 08-09-10 04:00:15 PM

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Originally posted by Orlandu
'll probably miss 05:06:07 since I don't post much in the evenings.

I think it mostly only counts in the morning. 24 hour time and all.

I was awake for 5:06:08 08.09.10, but I was driving to work.

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Posted on 08-09-10 04:23:46 PM

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	Besides military, who really goes by the 24 hour clock? I had a watch one time that could show either type and I left it on military time for a while just because. I remember hearing about a receipt from somewhere that had the date printed as: 1/2/03 04:05:06 789 Or something like that, it had all the numbers in sequence exactly with the date and some code at the end. ____________________

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Posted on 08-09-10 05:12:13 PM (last edited by Orlandu at 08-09-10 02:13 PM)

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	Let's see if I can time this correctly... I'm sitting here at the reply screen waiting to hit the button. Edit: Success! Posted on 08-09-10 11:12:13 AM (if your time is set to PST) ____________________

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Posted on 08-09-10 05:14:22 PM

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Whoops. Missed it.

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Posted on 08-09-10 05:14:59 PM

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The 24-hour clock is standard in most of Europe, actually, at least for written times. Like, instead of using the Latin "AM" and "PM", they'll just use 1:00 for the morning or 13:00 for the afternoon. I like the system, it makes sense to me, and over there it's used for stuff like train and bus schedules and opening times too. At least in Germany. They also use 12-hour time, but mostly only in speech like "Meet me at 5" to mean 17:00.

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Posted on 08-09-10 06:25:14 PM

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Another weird date milestone, hm. It's also unusually cool today where I live.

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Posted on 08-09-10 07:36:26 PM

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Originally posted by Terra
They also use 12-hour time, but mostly only in speech like "Meet me at 5" to mean 17:00.

Yeah, in speech, 12 hour time probably flows quite a bit better. For everything else? I'm not really sure which is better. We're used to 12 hour times, but what's the point, really? Is the concept of matching 24 numbers to the progress of the day too difficult - we need to break it up into 12-hour chunks?

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Posted on 08-09-10 09:07:45 PM (last edited by Sanky at 08-09-10 06:09 PM)

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I never really understood AM/PM, I always had to count +12 for PM to *get* the actual time.

Same thing with the date systems. I can get day. month. year (local), year-month-day (preffered), but month/day/year ? It's... totally out of order. :x

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Posted on 08-09-10 09:17:22 PM

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Originally posted by Sanky
Same thing with the date systems. I can get day. month. year (local), year-month-day (preffered), but month/day/year ? It's... totally out of order. :x

I think when you put it numerically, like 04/25/10, then it makes less sense... but in the US we're used to saying "April 25th" as opposed to "25th of April", since it's shorter and easier and Americans are lazy. So when translated into a quick number format, we keep the fact that we refer to the month first.

I think. :s Makes sense to me at least. I always get thrown off when the day is first and the month is second, even if it makes sense in terms of order.

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Posted on 08-09-10 09:20:41 PM

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I'm one of those who actually doesn't get why "mm-dd-yyyy" doesn't make sense ... yet I tend to use 24-hour time fairly often. (Actually, probably more than 12-hour time.)

Yeah, my senses of time are ENTIRELY screwed, too. Nothing new to me.

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Posted on 08-09-10 10:30:37 PM (last edited by Terra at 08-09-10 07:31 PM)

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If you don't grow up with M-D-Y, you tend to think it's odd

Also, it has the most specific thing (the day) in the middle, so I guess it's like how German numbers are said being confusing for English speakers. Like, "135" is einhundertfünfunddreißig, mentioning the digits in the order 1-5-3 but the number is 135, not 153.

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Posted on 08-09-10 11:53:56 PM

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Hmm, maybe when we reach 10 November 2012 at 13:14:15, we should definitely talk about it. I'm more used to d.m.yyyy myself, as well as 24-hour time. =P

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Posted on 08-09-10 11:59:56 PM

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If not forced to use a specific all-numeric format, I tend to use the ISO Y-M-D format for dates, with leading zeroes. If a form wants a different order, I'll use that order. For separators, I usually use the hyphen.

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