Zkuq said:
MM/DD is bad anyway, if only because it's consistent with MM/DD/YY which itself is bad. DD/MM/YY is logical, and the consistent choice with it is DD/MM.
OK, let's rephrase that: I don't think there are that many languages/cultures in the world where ISO 8601 is used in everyday use very commonly. English certainly isn't one of them. I'm also not sure ISO 8601 is ever going to get used much in everyday use, because I'm guessing it doesn't read too well. |
I'm pretty sure we use it in everyday use over here. I think, so does most of europe actually.
The english sentence structure doesn't naturally lend itself to ISO 8601 formatting, but most other laguages have never used the MM/DD/YYYY format. In fact it reads ultra wierd in a lot of languages. Plus as far as I remember we all celebrated the new millenuim in new years 1999/2000, so that's an everyday use right there.
I get what you mean, but I think ISO 8601 is more widespread in everyday use than you give it credit for.
| The Fury said:
There are like 2 things 'we cling' to in terms of the imperial system in the UK, Miles (MPH) for vehicles and what units milk comes in (and beer). Not sure why anyone uses the mm/dd/yyyy calendar system, that's just stupid.
On subject, it's sad that we are losing those that remember. The time when we lose the last person to remember WWI will be a sad time. |
Miles, stones and inches make me mad in particular. And you DO cling to inches. I've lived with you lot for four years and while you are lovely sort of people, your usage of imperial in casual contexts drives me nuts. My BF used to deliberately give me measures in imperial to mess with me once he figured out that I had no natural feeling for whatever 5'6'' is supposed to be. XD
British tend to use metric in scientific contexts though, so credit where credit is due.
