Date settings

[Eikari]

When i think of time or date, i count days. months and years

So the million dollars question is, why do some use months , days and years?

 

[Gorn]

Because that's how it's done where it's done and changing it would cause more problems than it solves.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Changing it to the correct format would solve problems:

28-July-17

 

[Gorn]

Changing it to the correct format would solve problems:

28-July-17

Such as?

 

[Eikari]

Because that's how it's done where it's done and changing it would cause more problems than it solves.

Well , i disagree wholeheartedly. Just to create misunderstanding. Months consist of days. Common sense.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Day first works for the rest of the world, but the folks in the U.S.A. are too stubborn to adopt a more correct format.

 

[Gorn]

Yes, but what specific problems does it cause.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

In Iceland (and everywhere but the U.S.A.), 05/08/87 is 05-Aug-1987.

 

[Eikari]

Yes, but what specific problems does it cause.

Just a thought , but americans seem stubborn to accept international standards, such as orange turn signals.

 

[Gorn]

Just a thought , but americans seem stubborn to accept international standards, such as orange turn signals.

How are orange turn signals better than not orange turn signals?

 

[Eikari]

To separate from the rear brake lights.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Just a thought , but americans seem stubborn

It doesn't just seem that way, it's quite true
For instance, I'm stubborn about using the term "American", because even Canadians live in North America, and then there's all those folks in Central & South America.

(aren't they also Americans?)

 

[Eikari]

It doesn't just seem that way, it's quite true
For instance, I'm stubborn about using the term "American", because even Canadians live in North America, and then there's all those folks in Central & South America.

(aren't they also Americans?)

The "american" term is common with US people. I believe so, but correct me if i´m wrong.

 

[Gorn]

The country is called America so the people there are called Americans. Canada is the name of that country. Central and South American countries each have individual names. It'd be like calling Americans western hemespherians.

 

[Eikari]

That makes sense Gorn, i dont question the term "americans" ( but Lemmy´s doppelganger does).

 

[Gorn]

The date thing makes sense. Small-bigger-biggest. And metric makes more sense than imperial units but it's the way it is and doesn't really seem to cause any problems that I know of.

 

[Eikari]

Making an example here: Sigurros have hired Desmond Child as the producer for their next album. Mr Child has arranged a session date of 8/3/2018. Sigurros attend at 8th of March. And there is no Desmond Child at the studio.

 

[two fingers]

Just a thought , but americans seem stubborn to accept international standards, such as orange turn signals.

How are orange turn signals better than not orange turn signals?

To separate from the rear brake lights.

If there is only one light on, and it's blinking, and the one on the other side is not blinking, guess what. The guy in front of you is turning that way. It doesn't matter if the light is hot pink or lime green.

This country was founded differently and has operated differently since its founding. I think we have done pretty well for ourselves, frankly.


(*sigh* These days I have to clarify, unfortunately. That was not meant to put down any other country. I hate no other country nor its citizens.)

 

[Gorn]

Making an example here: Sigurros have hired Desmond Child as the producer for their next album. Mr Child has arranged a session date of 8/3/2018. Sigurros attend at 8th of March. And there is no Desmond Child at the studio.

If that exchange happened and things went wrong, it's because the parties involved weren't explicit with details. If there was a world wide standard it would be different, but it still wouldn't completely eliminate human error and lack of foresight.

 

[ak56]

I prefer the year-month-day format YYYY-MM-DD.

Sorts properly.

ISO 8601 Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times specifies YYYY-MM-DD (the separators are optional, but only hyphens are allowed to be used), where all values are fixed length numeric, but also allows YYYY-DDD, where DDD is the ordinal number of the day within the year, e.g. 2001-365