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Posted on 08-10-10 12:49:45 AM Link | Quote
DD-MM-YY for life. I also prefer 24-hour time to 12-hour.

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Posted on 08-10-10 02:13:49 AM Link | Quote
Crap. I was checking my Twitter feed and I lost track of the time!

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Posted on 08-10-10 02:32:30 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Anya
Crap. I was checking my Twitter feed and I lost track of the time!

08-09-10 11:12:54


Better than fixing a television issue at 5:06:07 or being in the bathroom at 11:12:13.

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Posted on 08-10-10 09:50:50 AM (last edited by Sanky at 08-10-10 06:51 AM) Link | Quote
Originally posted by Terra
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.

We've got this too in Czech; it's one of the germanisms. For example, instead of "Dvacet tři" which means "Twenty three", you can say "Tři a dvacet", which means "Three and twenty", e.g. 23. I hate when people do that.

The biggest advantage of the ISO format, Y-M-D TH:M:S.MS is that it's all in order, which means it's easy to sort.


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Posted on 08-10-10 01:33:09 PM Link | Quote
There are similar nuances in Spanish. Many sentences are said backwords when compared to English.

But with numbers, they have ones like 16 which is "Diez y séis" and literally translates 10 and 6. Its commonly spelled Dieciséis now, but the correct way is the first one. 20-30 don't do this, but then it picks up again at 31 on up.

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Posted on 08-10-10 04:45:19 PM Link | Quote
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The Japanese don't name the months... they name the individual days.

AND 24-HOUR YYMMDD HHMMSS IS THE ONE TRUE FORMAT. It's sortable and does away with needless colons. You can stick the name of the day on the beginning or end if you like.
Originally posted by Shadic
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?
Originally, it was a metric-like system: 12 hours, 120 minutes each, invented by a society that counted in base 12. (Still 60 seconds though I guess? ) That was later corrupted to 24 hours, 60 minutes, and for some reason rather than count the hours 00-23 they decided to keep the 01-12 and just repeat the cycle twice per day. Yeah, humans don't make sense...

(It does have the advantage of being shorter syllables, but that's a language issue. Metric has the same problem; "mile" and "foot" are such nice words, "centimetre" and "kilometre" are ugh.)

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Posted on 08-10-10 11:49:13 PM Link | Quote
I prefer MM-DD-YY over DD-MM-YY because I was raised with it. That and because you'd say out loud August 10, 2010. Not 10 August, 2010.

24 hour isn't too bad for me. If it's above 12, subtract 12 and slap on a "PM". Durrrr. Simple mental math.

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Posted on 08-11-10 12:05:07 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by HyperHacker
The Japanese don't name the months... they name the individual days.
I don't think I've ever seen that.

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Posted on 08-11-10 12:28:49 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Boing
I prefer MM-DD-YY over DD-MM-YY because I was raised with it. That and because you'd say out loud August 10, 2010. Not 10 August, 2010.

24 hour isn't too bad for me. If it's above 12, subtract 12 and slap on a "PM". Durrrr. Simple mental math.


MM-DD-YY just sounds official to me and I was bough up with it.

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Posted on 08-11-10 12:56:33 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Joe
Originally posted by HyperHacker
The Japanese don't name the months... they name the individual days.
I don't think I've ever seen that.


The French Revolutionary calendar did name every day of the year.

It didn't last though, as religious types had to keep calculating every 7th day for the Sabbath and the calendar used 10-day weeks. Not to mention the relative scarcity of weekends, and having different dates from surrounding countries (there's a reason why even many Asian countries switched to the Gregorian calendar).

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