The American date system

SouthStand211 said:
It is REALLY annoying! We get people calling our helpdesk saying the systems are wrong when in fact they have American date settings! Americans have a lot to answer for! lol
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johnmc said:
allblues09 said:
There are many countries that list the dates as: year/day/month or year/month/day.

It is just a different endianness that a country prefers. I think you may be a little to self-centric to believe that the USA does it in a particular way to be different from the British.
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you must admit that is out of sequence to do it your way though.
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It is very kind of you to suggest we invented this system, but I do not believe that we did.

I am not really bothered either way.

I will say that the FAA, airlines and some sections of the government are going to year.month.day.

But we also use the 12-hour time system, does this also bother you? :)

I will say this is the strangest conversation I have had on Bluemoon!
 
allblues09 said:
It is very kind of you to suggest we invented this system, but I do not believe that we did.

I am not really bothered either way.

I will say that the FAA, airlines and some sections of the government are going to year.month.day.

But we also use the 12-hour time system, does this also bother you? :)
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Fair enough but on computer settings it is referred to as the american date.

It confuses me but i suppose if your used to it then the "UK" version will confuse you as well. 12 and 24 hour systems are both easy enough to decipher
 
johnmc said:
allblues09 said:
It is very kind of you to suggest we invented this system, but I do not believe that we did.

I am not really bothered either way.

I will say that the FAA, airlines and some sections of the government are going to year.month.day.

But we also use the 12-hour time system, does this also bother you? :)
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Fair enough but on computer settings it is referred to as the american date.

It confuses me but i suppose if your used to it then the "UK" version will confuse you as well. 12 and 24 hour systems are both easy enough to decipher
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I did not know that. Maybe we did create it? I do not know for sure one way or the other.

My parents are British, so I am accustomed to both. It is just important to know what you are looking at when trying to decipher dates. :)
 
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