Day/Month/Year - How is this not a global standard?

[The Original Bamfer]

If I see, like, 23-1-11, my first thought would be: "since when do we have twenty three months in a year?!"

 

[bell110]

day/month/year... smallest to greatest makes the most sense... I can quickly tell d/m/yr and m/d/yr apart. It's not a challenge or anything.

Well, yeah, if it's 24/02/2011. But what if it's 03/05/2011?

Also, why do you drive on the parkway yet park in a driveway?

 

[Asteroid-Man]

I keep trying to come up with some sort of logic behind either system, but I can't... there's the whole day/month/year makes sense in terms of organization of date, but then there's the whole "that's how you say it argument" ...until you look at "The fourth of July". Seriously who cares... what IS confusing as **** is why the United States is still using the ****ing imperial system... besides Myanmar and Liberia, EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD uses the metric system. If that's not reason enough to convert, how about the fact that it's logical and actually makes sense!?

 

[chaseter]

day/month/year... smallest to greatest makes the most sense... I can quickly tell d/m/yr and m/d/yr apart. It's not a challenge or anything.

01/01/01

Go for it

 

[Ponyboy]

brain... hurts...

 

[Ponyboy]

Well, yeah, if it's 24/02/2011. But what if it's 03/05/2011?

Also, why do you drive on the parkway yet park in a driveway?

haha... we don't say driveway, we say carport or garage. I think driveway is a Yankee thing.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

Something's going to happen on 11-11-11. I can feel it. An epidemic... of brains exploding.

 

[Ponyboy]

Only at 11:11am and 11:11pm though... So two minutes of pure chaotic destruc...tivity!

 

[Asteroid-Man]

AM - because 11:11 PM is technically 23:11... also it'll be on the 11th second.

 

[chaseter]

And chaos doesn't wait for different time zones so that is a no go.

 

[bell110]

haha... we don't say driveway, we say carport or garage. I think driveway is a Yankee thing.

It's kind of an old corney joke. You have to read that using Jerry Seinfeld's voice.

 

[E-Man]

If I see, like, 23-1-11, my first thought would be: "since when do we have twenty three months in a year?!"

That's just the Nazis and their tomfoolery. Only Hitler's disciples think it's okay to put the day in front of the month.

 

[Damien Rage]

Ok...I'll give in to the fact that the metric system makes sense...but where, OMG WHERE, is the sense of extra unpronounced letters in words!?! I know Eddie Izard says you say "H"erb, because there' an "H" in it. But i do t hear a "B" sound at the end of lamB or dumB... I'm sorry. Just had to throw that out there. Have a nice day =^)

 

[Shemtov]

Ok...I'll give in to the fact that the metric system makes sense...but where, OMG WHERE, is the sense of extra unpronounced letters in words!?! I know Eddie Izard says you say "H"erb, because there' an "H" in it. But i do t hear a "B" sound at the end of lamB or dumB... I'm sorry. Just had to throw that out there. Have a nice day =^)

ummm......what does that have to do with this thread?

 

[Damien Rage]

Nothing really. Just people are like "oh thoese silly Americans putting the month first". Well Americans didn't invent Enlgish and (personally) I think it's silly having extra random letters... So, yeah my post was really me just being me. I'm sorry. I'll go back to my corner =(

 

[SWAT]

Something's going to happen on 11-11-11. I can feel it. An epidemic... of brains exploding.

... Mah birthday! I'll be 25 though

 

[SuperFerret]

day/month/year... smallest to greatest makes the most sense...

What is this? Kindergarten? Size-order was just a ploy to keep children from preying on the smaller kids. It has no merit in the real world.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Something's going to happen on 11-11-11. I can feel it. An epidemic... of brains exploding.

Elder Scrolls V comes out that day so brains will be exploding from the awesomeness of it.

 

[Hound55]

Europe = Backasswards. Writing the date and addresses like that is just confusing as hell.

Only because you've idiotically been learning it backwards for generations...

 

[Gamma Ray]

01/01/01

Go for it

That's wrong. It should be 01/01/01.