That's so ambiguous isn't it. I am talking about about time dates and the US using a different general date system to the rest of the world.
Published on the 11/24/23 is clear but not what I am used to. If it was 09/10/23, Houston and Blogger, we have problems.
Blogger gets it right for Australia at this final point.
So as I type this on my sister's birthday, 6th August, this below was not of concern to me today as I had no need for my motor car, but I think it would be month old history to Americans. I do really wonder why America doesn't adapt to the world with world standards rather than stand alone as the great world power.
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We'd lose the Pi Day advantage if we changed!
ReplyDeleteYou've got me Boud. What is Pi Day?
DeleteMarch 14 -- 3.14. Pi. People also eat pie.
DeleteIt can be quite frustrating.
ReplyDeleteJayCee, I was very caught out by it in the 90s www, when I didn't know about the different system. I never forgive.
DeleteExceptualism? I know not and still sometimes struggle with it.
ReplyDeletePS: I hope your sister has a very Happy Birthday.
DeleteSister did have a good birthday EC, with as I wished her, a day full of love.
DeleteUS just wants to be different in everything we do
ReplyDeleteOr just cling to what they know and they just won't change.
DeleteAmerica doesn't like to adapt.
ReplyDeleteIt seems not Bob, and causes lots of issues and some serious safety issues with poor conversion to and from metric measurements.
DeleteSame with using Imperial (USA, Liberia and Myanmar) vs Metric (the other 193 countries in the world). How confusing :(
ReplyDeleteHels, as I discovered when I did an online conversion of a 44 gallon drum to a 205 litre drum, the problem was already there with Imperial measurements being different to US measurements. Get with the programme US, hey.
DeleteWe are rugged individulists here, Andrew. We will not conform to the world. *wags confederate flag wildly*
ReplyDeleteI am amused Debby, and I appreciate it would be a huge change. But Australia changed from pounds, shilling and pence, based on 12, to decimal based on 10. We changed from English Imperial to Metric. We survived.
DeleteHappy Birthday to your sister. I sometimes wonder why they don't change but I'm used to the way they do dates. They probably think it's all too hard, but we thought that (well the old people did) when Australia changed from pounds, shillings and pence to dollars and cents, then again when we changed from pounds, ounces and pints to kilograms and litres and overall it only took a year or so to be completely adapted and anyone beginning school at the time of change would have learned the new from the beginning.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they just like being different. I wonder how much trouble it causes them when they travel to other countries?
I promise River, I did not read you comment before I wrote the comment above to Debby. I was never really taught Imperial measurements, so the change was pretty easy for me. I remember being so excited when I received my first five cent piece in change. It was so shiny and so beautiful. Echidna on it, wasn't it? That's a good point about when US people travel. It must cause them issues too.
DeleteEchidna it was and Echidna it still is. I was in high school at the time of change and had no problems at all with it.
DeleteI wasn't aware until a few years ago that the U.S. even did dates differently.
ReplyDeleteKirk, I became aware in the 90s when I first connected to the internet and I was caught out by the date format.
DeleteIt is weird
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
Alison, and there no appetite for change.
DeleteIt's confusing - better, but slower, to write the month rather than number it.
ReplyDeleteJB, yes, that works when you write something but not with automatic online date systems. At least here, date formats for online forms indicate dd/mm/yyyy.
DeleteFor absolute clarity when travelling and booking accommodation in the US I always write the month out in letters otherwise it could all go so horribly wrong.
ReplyDeleteThank you and your advice is wise, but how many actually write when booking accommodation. It is now clicking on an online calendar.
DeleteI have never thought about the timing on the blogs. Mostly thought must be in bed over there!
ReplyDeleteLol Thelma. That's what I mostly think. Ah, they'll be in bed now.
DeleteHappy Birthday to your sister Andrew.
ReplyDeleteI wish the USA would put the date the same as we do. I prefer the full year for when doing researching I sometimes wonder which year as in 1913 or 2013. Yes it happens.
Margaret, I think about the year too and wonder why we have to add 20 and not just 24 when filling in things online. You are right though, history needs to know.
DeleteCelebrate the difference. The historical answer, is in the late 1700's early 1800's a group of intellectuals in North America wanted to distinguish American English from British English, to establish a unique identity and not just be seen as a rogue colony. Part of doing so was changes in spelling, grammar and word usage.
ReplyDeleteTP, yes but why play with the date format. Perhaps the way we now write the brief form of dates now wasn't done back then.
DeleteAs a nurse, I always have to date things but sadly that format changed enough over the years that I can no longer remember what our present format is, so thanks for that.
ReplyDeletePixie, that's interesting. I wouldn't have thought there would be any confusion as you would always write MMDDYYYYY
DeleteI like to start some computer files with yyyy-mm-dd. That way it is easier to see when they were made, and it puts them in date order. The world should adopt my system.
ReplyDeleteTasker, I agree. It is already an unofficial way of writing a date for international readers. It is just reversing what we already use.
DeleteI will sheepishly admit Canada uses the same format as the US except for some purposes we use YYYY/MM/DD and I've also seen the standard European format, mostly in Quebec as I recall . . . are you confused yet? I am. And we have been through the Imperial to metric change so you'd think we could handle a date format that ends up being clearer and better! At times I've had to figure out what date was intended on an invoice by looking at the credit card slip which uses a different format (in my accounting job). Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteMy brother shares your sister's birthday. I hope Sis had a good day :)
Jenny, I have no problems with that format. It is becoming more widely used and is quite clear. Australia has gone backwards with metrication. Our tv screens are now marked in inches and not cm as they used to be. People know how heavy a baby is in pounds, which they didn't two decades ago. Tyre gauges have reverted to lbs per square inch. It's a mess. I've notice dual weights on vegetable prices in photos I've seen taken in Canada. They do this in England too.
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