On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:51:25 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> On 04/10/2011 10:47 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>> Le 03/10/2011 22:11, Alain a écrit :
>>> I always wonder WHY the USA kept that colonial mesurment system.
>>
>> The "Not made here" syndrom.
>> USA is proud of its own system.
> 
> Ah. Is /that/ why they're the only country on Earth who can't write the
> date in any consistent order?

Pretty consistently the format used is MM/DD/YYYY (separators might vary).

Myself, when dealing with an international audience, I'll use a format 
like the one in my quote attribution line (04 Oct 2011) so there's no 
ambiguity.

Jim

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On 4-10-2011 14:09, clipka wrote:
> Am 04.10.2011 11:51, schrieb Invisible:
>> On 04/10/2011 10:47 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>>> Le 03/10/2011 22:11, Alain a écrit :
>>>> I always wonder WHY the USA kept that colonial mesurment system.
>>>
>>> The "Not made here" syndrom.
>>> USA is proud of its own system.
>>
>> Ah. Is /that/ why they're the only country on Earth who can't write the
>> date in any consistent order?
>
>  From a rational point of view, the widespread day-month-year ordering
> is only marginally more consistent than the american month-day-year
> ordering.
>
> The only truly consistent ordering is the still uncommon ISO
> year-month-date ordering ("2011-10-04"): Digits are listed in order of
> descending significance (big-endian) throughout.

correct me if I am but I seem to remember that this is japanese style.

>
> Little-endian throughout ("40-01-1102") would be just as consistent in
> itself, but inconsistent with traditional numerical notation.


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Am 04.10.2011 21:18, schrieb andrel:

>> The only truly consistent ordering is the still uncommon ISO
>> year-month-date ordering ("2011-10-04"): Digits are listed in order of
>> descending significance (big-endian) throughout.
>
> correct me if I am but I seem to remember that this is japanese style.

Might be; I only know it's definitely ISO style.

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Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
> 1 Imperial beer barrel = 240 real pints = 288 US pints.

  "This, my friend, is a pint."

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:24:10 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
>> 1 Imperial beer barrel = 240 real pints = 288 US pints.
> 
>   "This, my friend, is a pint."

"It comes in *pints*????"

Jim

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On 04/10/2011 9:24 PM, Warp wrote:
> Stephen<mcavoys_at@aoldotcom>  wrote:
>> 1 Imperial beer barrel = 240 real pints = 288 US pints.
>
>    "This, my friend, is a pint."
>
Thanks!

Slurp!

"This, my friend, is a dead pint."

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     Stephen

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>> The only truly consistent ordering is the still uncommon ISO
>> year-month-date ordering ("2011-10-04"): Digits are listed in order of
>> descending significance (big-endian) throughout.
>
> correct me if I am but I seem to remember that this is japanese style.

I thought they just called it "the year of the cat"?

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On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:54:09 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> The only truly consistent ordering is the still uncommon ISO
>>> year-month-date ordering ("2011-10-04"): Digits are listed in order of
>>> descending significance (big-endian) throughout.
>>
>> correct me if I am but I seem to remember that this is japanese style.
> 
> I thought they just called it "the year of the cat"?

You're thinking of the Chinese calendar.

Jim

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>>> correct me if I am but I seem to remember that this is japanese style.
>>
>> I thought they just called it "the year of the cat"?
>
> You're thinking of the Chinese calendar.

Oh, right...

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On 05/10/2011 3:57 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> >  I thought they just called it "the year of the cat"?
> You're thinking of the Chinese calendar.

In the Century of the Anchovy.

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     Stephen

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