theprof00 said:
papflesje said:
theprof00 said:
papflesje said:
Vetteman94 said:
sully1311 said:
Vetteman94 said:
sully1311 said:
Garnett: Yes! 23/2 or (2/23 the wrong way round1) |
How is that the wrong way?
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Americans put the date the wrong way round. I thought this was known.
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Thats funny, I thought everyone else wrote the date the wrong way.
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The mm/dd/yy format is used in Belize, Canada, Micronesia, Palau, Philippines, and the US. A mere smidge compared to the amount of countries and people using the other format.
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The US way is more intuitive while the Euro way is more linear.
Everyone writes dates in longhand as mm/dd (ex: I went to the park on Feb 5th).
However, the Euro way makes more sense in the smallest to largest categories.
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It's intuitive for YOU, because you are an American. No offense, but the rest of your argument is pretty much invalid as most of the countries and languages I know do NOT use that "intuitive" way.
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Well, think about this as well, if you want to tak about intuitiveness. I went to bed at 30minutes after 11. Isn't it more intuitive to say hour then minute? Because the hour really has a strong bearing on the minute, right?
Also, do you guys really talk like that? "you have a meeting on the 23rd of February" instead of "Feb 23rd"??
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Again, you're letting your upbringing dictate here. The fact is that the majority of the world does not follow that rule. Perhaps Americans should re-think their use (not saying they should change it, but the "what the hell is the rest of the world doing"-vibe is a bit much)
