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2006-09-08 or 9/8.
Huh?

This item was edited on Thursday, 14th September 2006, 16:54

Explain further,

or are you making comment about their weird back to front date method.
BTW, a belated welcome back.

This item was edited on Thursday, 14th September 2006, 17:39

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2006-09-08

YYYY-MM-DD is how I begin the names of some files if I want to ensure they appear consecutively. This makes sense. Our DD-MM-YY also makes sense. The American date-style makes no sense whatsover, they just do it to be awkward I think.

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BTW, a belated welcome back.
Ta. :)
The weird way they do it arse-about-face. I don`t know, for update purposes (for example), whether it is the 9th August or the 8th September.
In this instance it is pretty easy to work out, but other times with other stuff it is impossible.
Logically it is day, month, year. Makes sense. But oh no, they have to change it into an illogical sequence.
Wonder if they actually meant to do that horror on the 9th of November? Maybe I shouldn`t go there.

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The American date-style makes no sense whatsover, they just do it to be awkward I think.

Think rightl I you are.

Hey we gave the Yanks a language and they fooked that up too! :D

I said that to one once and the response was "and we refined it".
Yea, sure. >:(

Really Month/Day does make sense if you write it Year/Month/Day.

But I think it`s more to do with how they say it - Novermber 5th, December 25th etc etc where as we are more likely to say 25th of December.

Americans do seem to miss off "and"s and "of"s, which could be argued, makes the language quicker.

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The Yanks deliberately drove (or more accurately rode seeing as twas in the 17th c) on the right hand side of the road to be different from their British/European background. They also deliberately eat with the knife and fork reversed for the same reason. Might be the same for dates.

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They also deliberately eat with the knife and fork reversed for the same reasonIs that really true? :o