Random Poll of Nine Days Ago! (884)

[KangarooGirl]

Well I just realised my mobile credit expires on that day. To get more credit or not? Now that's the question XD

[Callid]

Nothing OR some minor incident and everyone panicing.
Some doomsdayers will set a new date, some will say it's already begun.
Lot of media coverage.

Chekhov and mangaluva

This.

There is no 21th month! D:

XD
Kleene, you should know already, Americans start in the middle and then alternately continue left and right. .iteiLk hs They just usually write differently for the sake for anyone not living in the US, but are a bit forgetful when it comes to dates.
:!ncrm l iH,alAeias D

[Stopwatch]

There is no 21th month! D:

XD
Kleene, you should know already, Americans start in the middle and then alternately continue left and right. .iteiLk hs They just usually write differently for the sake for anyone not living in the US, but are a bit forgetful when it comes to dates.
:!ncrm l iH,alAeias D

It makes more sense imo to go from the smallest period of time to the largest though (although even the largest to the smallest would still make more sense than that weird way). Why the month(middle) to the day(smallest) then to the year(biggest)...? 2-1-3 instead of 1-2-3. It's confusing~ @_o.
Don't think I voted for this one. Oh well :x

[Jecka]

There is no 21th month! D:

XD
Kleene, you should know already, Americans start in the middle and then alternately continue left and right. .iteiLk hs They just usually write differently for the sake for anyone not living in the US, but are a bit forgetful when it comes to dates.
:!ncrm l iH,alAeias D

It makes more sense imo to go from the smallest period of time to the largest though (although even the largest to the smallest would still make more sense than that weird way). Why the month(middle) to the day(smallest) then to the year(biggest)...? 2-1-3 instead of 1-2-3. It's confusing~ @_o.
Don't think I voted for this one. Oh well :x

You should have been there for that conversation we had about this.

[Callid]

It makes more sense imo to go from the smallest period of time to the largest though (although even the largest to the smallest would still make more sense than that weird way). Why the month(middle) to the day(smallest) then to the year(biggest)...? 2-1-3 instead of 1-2-3. It's confusing~ @_o.
Don't think I voted for this one. Oh well :x

Actually, the largest-to-smallest (2012-11-23) format, also called big-endian, is the most logical ones, as it works similar to numbers themselves, and also similar to how time works (17:43, not 43:17). This format is also the international standard (with leading zeros). Little-endian (23.11.2012) is the second-most logical format, as it still has everything in order. The order just happens to be ascending instead of descending. Middle-endian (11/23/2012), however, doesn't make much sense at all. I often hear that it's useful in organizing stuff on a PC, and that might be an advantage over little-endian, but big-endian works even better at sorting stuff, because the years get sorted correctly, too! So, IMO, there are many reasons to use big-endian, some to use little-endian (mostly natural languages), but none to use middle-endian.
Also, I strongly suggest to not use the / divisor for anything but middle-endian, and never use any other divisor for middle-endian. Oh, and write the year as four digits, so noone can confuse little- and big-endian.
9/11/(20)01 = 2001-09-11 = 11-09-2001 (= 11.9.2001)
(The dots are in brackets because they are, while unambiguous, a rather German standard )

[PT]

Also, I strongly suggest to not use the / divisor for anything but middle-endian, and never use any other divisor for middle-endian. Oh, and write the year as four digits, so noone can confuse little- and big-endian.

Then I guess it's a good thing that's a standard for you over there.

Doesn't mean other people should change their habits to fit your standards though.

[Akonyl]

"Middle-endian" is primarily used so that written notation matches spoken notation, afaik. People say "December 21st, 2012" much more frequently than "The 21st of December, 2012" or "In the year 2012, on December 21st".

[Callid]

Also, I strongly suggest to not use the / divisor for anything but middle-endian, and never use any other divisor for middle-endian. Oh, and write the year as four digits, so noone can confuse little- and big-endian.

Then I guess it's a good thing that's a standard for you over there.

Doesn't mean other people should change their habits to fit your standards though.

Actually, their own standards as well. ISO 8601 is international, and therefore should be used for all international affairs (like the forum) at least. If you Americans write among yourselves, feel free to write however you want, but unless you are in some special restricted section, the internet is international and therefore the international format should be used.
If you write in Sorbian, however, you can use the traditional format without any issues, because all Sorbian natives use the same format, and anyone who actually learns that language will therefore know that a date within a Sorbian paragraph is in the Sorbian format. This also applies to German, while as German has two formats (YYYY-MM-DD and DD.MM.YYYY), they cannot be confused with one another. In English, however, all three formats are used, and there is no valid convention as when to use which separator. Therefore, unless one is introduced - for example, the one I suggested - one has to strictly adhere to the international format, or otherwise face confusion and ridicule. After all, the Japanese date format is also a valid one, but I suppose å¹³æˆ

[KainTheVampire]

I thought it was 12/12/12?

[Callid]

I thought it was 12/12/12?

Nope, it's the solstice. 2012-12-21

[Stopwatch]

They do?

^This. The only version I hear spoken regularly outside of DD-MM-YY is stuff like "Friday, 23rd November", but days are a different thing anyway :x. It seems more likely the spoken "November the 23rd" thing came about because of the written thing over there instead...?
(I'd noticed the hours-minutes-seconds thing, but I'd not really seen the YY-MM-DD before so~ :x. Interesting to know it is used in some places )

The reason the "of" is missed out is probably due to the fact that when it's written down the "of" is left out for some stupid reason, to make it shorter I'd guess. When we first had to copy down the date without the "of" in year 3 I did actually ask *why* but I don't remember the answer for some reason . Anyway, it's just some annoying illogical thing that is done sorta like that American date thing.

[KainTheVampire]

I thought it was 12/12/12?

Nope, it's the solstice. 2012-12-21

Oh, ok
.... Does that mean they're predicting the world to end while I might still be in the lousy school? *doesn't want to die near annoying class* Well, don't believe in that shit but still

[Kor]

It's the last day of the semester for me. Makes me wonder whether or not I should do the final project for my last class

[aly_angelflight]

"Middle-endian" is primarily used so that written notation matches spoken notation, afaik. People say "December 21st, 2012" much more frequently than "The 21st of December, 2012" or "In the year 2012, on December 21st".

Obviously, it's because there are too many idiots here in the US who wouldn't even be able to write the date if it didn't follow the way it was spoken.

[PT]

Actually, their own standards as well. ISO 8601 is international, and therefore should be used for all international affairs (like the forum) at least. If you Americans write among yourselves, feel free to write however you want, but unless you are in some special restricted section, the internet is international and therefore the international format should be used.

And yet again, here you are making comments about how people should run their forums. Hey, I've got a crazy idea! If you want things to be done your way so much, go start your own forum, with your own rules, and your own freaking date set-up.

Stop trying to tell other people how things "should" be done.