dd/mm/yyyy is the way to go, imo - Page 2

Ric · 06-06-2009, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by The Germanator

I think the weirdness just becomes with the muscle memory of writing it the way we do. For whatever reason I was taught to write 8/15/85 for the date above, and if I saw it as 15/8/85 it would take me a second because my brain doesn't immediately recognize that pattern. I understand why both sides think the other is strange, mainly because we didn't learn it that way.

EDIT: Mana stole my thunder, whoops. Heh.

I would have to agree. It's like you say, you just have to think about it for a few seconds more.

Just to clear something up, if asked my 'Date Of Birth' I would say The Second of the Seventh.
If asked 'when is my birthday' I would either say The Second Of July (which is the correct way) or July The Second (which is actually a slang/bad english way of saying it.) I speak two languages, English and Bad English

Angrist · 06-06-2009, 01:04 PM

In Dutch we would say 'Two June 1983'. No 'th' after the day. Really makes it a lot faster.

Oh, they also do it that way in French and German. Probably more languages.

manasecret · 06-06-2009, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Angrist

In Dutch we would say 'Two June 1983'. No 'th' after the day. Really makes it a lot faster.

OMG, if I had just dropped the 'th' for all these years I've been saying dates I would have saved a whole two minutes of my life!

Angrist · 06-06-2009, 01:32 PM

I'll have you know that 'th' is annoying to pronounce for most foreigners.

Of course we don't say that in Dutch.

(Usually 'de': eerste, tweede, derde, vierde, vijfde, zesde, zevende, achtste, negende, tiende...)

Ric · 06-06-2009, 03:52 PM

Back to that thing about clocks.

Hooray For Full Metal Alchemist. (Except for putting the numbers in the wrong place.)

jeepnut · 06-06-2009, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Ric

Back to that thing about clocks.

Hooray For Full Metal Alchemist. (Except for putting the numbers in the wrong place.)

Technically that's more logical though than putting 12 at the top. Sort of...

Angrist · 06-07-2009, 09:20 AM

I like those mirrored clocks.
Makes you realize how totally random we see certain things.

KillerGremlin · 06-11-2009, 03:37 PM

Unless you are archiving something or sorting music, I do dd/mm/yyyy.

Usually on homework and stuff I just put date/year, but on papers I put the dd/mm/yyyy.

If you are indexing music it's best to go by year. And for archiving shit it's best to go year/month/date.

I never understood why United States driver license and birth certificates always go MM/DD/YYYY. The year is most important for buying booze and stuff and I hate it when the cashier guy has to think about when I was born for 6 minutes to figure out if I'm 21. It's pretty fucking simple though. It's 2009. If you were born before '88 you can buy booze. If you really need to get picky you need to have been born before June in '88.