"Because we can" USA is the world and lets create obscure standards that are only practised here.
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Or you're in Florida and he changed lanes that way three miles ago.
And since few people use their turn signals anyway, it REALLY doesn't matter what color they are.
This is one of my pet peeves. When you get a receipt it might say 8/2/17 Well what does that mean? There is no standard. To some it means February 8, 2017. To others it means August 2, 2017. In Canada many places use day-month-year but it isn't standardized; I recently got a gas receipt dated month-day-year.
IMO it needs to be standardized. Pick one.
Using that logic Canada could also be called "America."
Then don't buy a CIJ Fender and try to swap necks or pickups with MIM/MIA parts. There were a lot of American cars built in the failed standard to metric transition period that featured a mix of std and metric fasteners, and today you buy a lot of parts made in Asia for American cars with sloppy fastener fits because they have std. threads in metric holes.
There are many other examples, JIS screwdrivers versus Phillips screwdrivers, things laid out with metric measuring tools to replace things originally laid out with std. measuring tools. A metric Asian engine mounted to a mower built using US std. dimensions and fasteners. Lots of low to middle end stuff from China held together with sloppy fitting hybrid fasteners featuring US std. threads on metric diameter bolts with JIS heads.
Yep, our refusal to adapt to the world standard causes plenty of problems for us as consumers and the rest of the world as suppliers of consumer goods.
Of course we could go back to building just about everything here, but that six dollar imported toaster from the local AllMart would run you a couple hundred bucks if it was built here.
And last of all, there's a good reason the US military uses the metric system for map reading. It's to avoid confusion when working with allies on the metric system, basically the rest of the world. Imagine the accuracy of artillery if the forward observer plotted in metric and the gunner adjusted in US std.
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Let's face it.
The metric system makes sense.
The dd/mm/yyyy standard makes sense.
Heck, even @Killed_by_Death seems to accept these and we all know what he's like, right?
It's about time the rest of you stopped being so damned stubborn.
The metric system makes sense.
The dd/mm/yyyy standard makes sense.
Heck, even @Killed_by_Death seems to accept these and we all know what he's like, right?
It's about time the rest of you stopped being so damned stubborn.
I know a better method when I see it & prefer to avoid confusion or mistakes.
When I recite a number, I never include "Oh", because there are no O's in a numeral.
I never say a task is "hard" when it's difficult.
When I recite a number, I never include "Oh", because there are no O's in a numeral.
I never say a task is "hard" when it's difficult.
You're hard to listen to, but maybe I'm difficult of hearing.
Have you forgotten this one?
Nov. 10, 1999: Metric Math Mistake Muffed Mars Meteorology Mission
Granted this isn't about date formats, but same basic problem....
Usa IS viewed as rather thick & stubborn by the rest of the world. .. ain't that common knowledge? Jeeeez they elected an orange ooompa-loompa...
And by saying this, I'm definitely not saying we're any better. (Tho we do use the standard date system and metric). Still. ....song saying much. .
And by saying this, I'm definitely not saying we're any better. (Tho we do use the standard date system and metric). Still. ....song saying much. .
My impression was that we were perceived not so much as thick and stubborn but as arrogant -- i.e., we expect the rest of the world to conform to our norms rather than us conforming to theirs. No?
We used U.S. standards for electrical wiring in Thailand, but my Commonwealth coworkers complained about it when given the opportunity.
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?)
So let me get this straight: because you are such a stickler for proper nomenclature, you would refer to a person from, say... Peru, as American?
I think the month first narrows down whatever year we're in nicely, followed by a specific day. Keep the year at the end just for a little bit of suspense
. I'll give ya the metric system being superior, though
You are in denial.
Day-month-year is perfectly fine.
So......3/4/2017.
In your country that's March 4th/ 2017.
Everywhere else it's the 3rd of April 2017.
So that's the problem right there. Trying to figure out which it is....because now we have copycats all over the place that love to do this too because it's sooooooo the thing to do...like putting the stupid little slash in the number 7 as it's very artsy fartsy and so sophisticated.
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