confucius said:this will never happen again.
Except in England it will be 01:02:03 05/04/06 - which has always seemed a more logical way to write it to me. I guess it just means that we have to wait another month."On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06."
IdleRich said:Except in England it will be 01:02:03 05/04/06
matt b said:as stewart lee once said- "lets reclaim the dates"
Yeah, it just seems that it should be like an address in time (if you see what I mean) where you start with the most precise part and then zoom out. On the other hand I reckon that if I had designed addresses they would be the opposite way round saying the country first followed by the area followed by the street and finally the number. By that reasoning it would make sense to use year-month-date so that first you have a general idea and finally home in but date-month-year doesn't seem to have any logic to it at all."Im with you there... month first is just, well... stupid!"
IdleRich said:Yeah, it just seems that it should be like an address in time (if you see what I mean) where you start with the most precise part and then zoom out. On the other hand I reckon that if I had designed addresses they would be the opposite way round saying the country first followed by the area followed by the street and finally the number.
droid said:Otherwise OTM, though I fear 9/11 has permanently fucked up the struggle for a sensible calendar...
Yeah of course I see that it's better for a postman to have the street and number written first because he knows what town he's in. Same with the date, you can assume that you are talking about this year and if you just say a day you assume it's this month. I'm just saying that that approach is another one that would be consistent with itself while the US one isn't."That approach works globally, but not locally. Why should anyone in the UK need to put 'the UK' at the start of all their local mail?"
That reminds me of a letter my brother told me about to Viz: When I married my wife on September the 11th 2001 I nervously wondered how I would remember our anniversary, imagine my relief when I turned on the tv only to see..."Its worth saying that to an American just to see the look on their faces... As long as you dont mind being nearly beaten up!"
confucius said:I was to hasty when making the original post: it will happen again later that day at 1 PM, and ofcourse as Melchior pointed out, in 3006.
month/day is backward but what about Inches and Feet? that is just idiotic.
confucius said:I was to hasty when making the original post: it will happen again later that day at 1 PM, and ofcourse as Melchior pointed out, in 3006.
confucius said:month/day is backward but what about Inches and Feet? that is just idiotic.