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MM/DD/YYYY not DD/MM/YYYY ?

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Jake...
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I'm sitting in class today writing the date on my math note and the same thought pondered through my head again. Does it not make sense for the date to be sequential: i.e. day, then month, then year? Does anyone in here know who "Created" this, or why it's done? It just seems more confusing to me.

I know last year my buddy got pumped for 1:23 04/05/06  and then april 5th came around and he was waiting for may 4th. And he missed it.


Is it just one of society's accepted mess-ups?
Jan 8 2007 6:04PM
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japie99
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yeah its day/month/year here in europe
Jan 8 2007 6:09PM
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Jake...
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im moving to europe.
Jan 8 2007 6:11PM
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jibsworth
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i just always use.. 8-Jan-2007 format so no one is confused
Jan 8 2007 6:13PM
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jonnydub
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I don't know if this is right but maybe the reason that we use 01/08/06 is because that is the sequence we say dates in. eg January 8, 2006
Jan 8 2007 6:14PM
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anna*
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its day month year here in australia too... but still, move to europe. more snow than here.
Jan 8 2007 6:28PM
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SteezePatrol
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YY/MM/DD
Jan 8 2007 6:30PM
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Mezmerize19
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That would fuck me up so much. Im still getting used to writing 07 on my papers
Jan 8 2007 6:43PM
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SARTRON
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may 4th is my birthday.

just wanted to point that out
Jan 8 2007 6:47PM
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skiierman
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I think it is much better as month/day/year because well... that's how we do.
Jan 8 2007 6:47PM
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Jake...
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that actually makes alot of sense.
Jan 8 2007 6:52PM
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japie99
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wouldnt be so sure about that
Jan 10 2007 10:45AM
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soulskier
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mm/dd/year

i think it makes the most sense
Jan 10 2007 11:14AM
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StealthSteez
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how do you figure? Personally I think its retarded and I always screw it up.

GOOD THREAD.

DOWN WITH MM/DD/YY !!
Jan 10 2007 12:08PM
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DANETRON
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id ont know, but what the hell is wrong with your buddy
Jan 10 2007 12:34PM
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XXL_Steeze
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DD/MM/YYYY is ten times better..
Jan 10 2007 12:49PM
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d-mold
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Same here.
Jan 10 2007 1:25PM
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japie99
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yeaah let argue about nd go one forever!!
Jan 10 2007 5:24PM
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Charles^stevens
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half the time i dont know what day it is and i really have no hope in hell to know if it is the 12th or 8 th so i really dont worry about the whole date shit
Jan 10 2007 5:28PM
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anna*
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ok. this whole entire season that our FIVE major resorts were open... we got 45 CM of snow.
and when i was in europe last christmas, there was alot more snow there.

im not talking about right at the moment, just... in general.
Jan 10 2007 5:40PM
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Peter.
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jea
Jan 10 2007 5:45PM
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skicraze123
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its day month year in canada month day year would just be confusing
Jan 10 2007 6:08PM
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Edward.
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i wrote the wrong date on one of my spanish tests like that and i got points off for it
Jan 10 2007 6:17PM
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tomc51
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no bueno!!

you write mm/dd because it sounds better to say january 1st 2007 than it is to say the 1st of january 2007
Jan 10 2007 10:32PM
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jimmychung
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i've seen it both ways. i think they do mm/dd/yyyy because it's like saying: 12/25/06 = december 25th, 2006. as opposed to dd/mm/yyyy: 25/12/2006 = 25th of december, 2006.
the way we speak of a date we usually say it in mm/dd/yyyy.

Jan 10 2007 11:08PM
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anitaskis
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On my computer right now it says:
10/01/2007
DD/MM/YYYY

That shit always messes me up so much though!
Jan 10 2007 11:16PM
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french_fry
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I think the reason is because they felt like being bitches, same goes for miles, feet, inches, although those are inherited from the british

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country
Jan 10 2007 11:28PM
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anna*
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and that is why you update to km, m, cm etc...

the british have a history of losing things that are theirs... such as the cricket...5-0...hahaha.
Jan 10 2007 11:33PM
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DDrem.
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i dont know why it happens but my dad does it dd/mm/yyyy and is always fucking me up b/c of it
Jan 10 2007 11:33PM
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St.Steezy
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its actually a pretty big problem since it is not standardized. Canada does is one way and the States does it another. I work in a grocery store, so products depending on where they are from have these different dates. So, it poses a problem for expiry dates, there should be a standard way of doing it.
Jan 11 2007 2:17AM
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oSe
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its DAY MO YEAR
Jan 11 2007 2:19AM
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skier_boy26
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screw metric, imperial all the way.
but mm/dd/yy makes sense, because as mentioned, it is how we say it for the most part. Occasionally we may say something like: the 12th of January, but for the most part, it goes like: January 12th.
But it gets confusing when dealing with different countries. I was dealing with some translation work, some would go from Japan to the U.S., then to Britain for editing, then back to Japan, and all the sequence of dates got all screwy. Thats when standardization wouldn't hurt, but whatever.
Jan 11 2007 3:32AM
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Homebrewer19
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that was last Christmas, Europe's not having a great year. but it's still better than 45cm
Jan 11 2007 5:52AM
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SlickRick.
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O rly? its my sissters. actually its not
Jan 11 2007 11:50AM
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Jake...
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no, its month day year in canada, i live here i made this thread.
Jan 12 2007 11:17PM
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oSe
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ACTUALLY,... if you had any schooling at all

in canada it is known as DAY MONTH YEAR...
day mo year.....
Jan 13 2007 12:18AM
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steezyjibber
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ns thinkers cult
Jan 13 2007 9:26AM
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