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TWRoO on 03 March 2012

Final-Fan said:

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insomniac17 said:

Good lord, you have no idea how happy I would be if the US adopted the metric scale. The English system is a pain for conversions, it's convoluted, and nobody else uses it. Unfortunately, in many industries here (like the aerospace industry), so many things are set up to be done in the English system, that it is unlikely to go away any time soon.

Considering the English have mostly stopped using it should be proof enough it's outdated (Road signs in the UK still use Miles and yards though, and in most places both imperial and metric weights are given... it's taking an annoyingly long time to ween this country off imperial measure)

More annoying than the US using imperial though is that the US is the major source of influence on the internet, so it pollutes the rest of the world.

And holy shit at that lighthouse pic.

You know, though, the date really isn't as "logical smooth sailing" as the picture contends; it's not truly little-endian since the hours, minutes, etc. are invariably big-endian. Logically, therefore, dates ought to be big-endian to match: 2012 March 03 04:43...

I do wonder how the wave could possibly miss him; and yet he probably was used to that place so it would seem likely he was fine.

It's about the factor of importance... Generally people don't have as much need to know what year it is compared to what the day is, so the day is stated first then it goes in size order. With the time of day the hour is the most important, although in today's society minutes are also very important... but it's rare that seconds have any significance.

Date and Time are two things that are used apart but they can also work together, so to me it makes sense that they diverge from each other, with hours and days being prominent and the date progressing to larger measures, and time progressing to smaller.

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Final-Fan on 03 March 2012

Think what you like but I'm never going to go to the beach on "22 June" and you can have my three-quarters inch wrench when you pry it from my cold dead hands

[edit: For a more serious answer, the big-endian system can truncate the year (and month) as easily as most people truncate seconds on the other end: you can say "March 3rd" or "the 3rd" (although that's hardly much faster) on the assumption that the year is not going to get confused unless you are writing something in long-term records. Saying "the 3rd of March" doesn't seem any more logical than "March 3rd".]

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NightDragon83 on 03 March 2012

Fuck the metric system... we are not changing the name of the "quarter-pounder" to the "royale with cheese"!

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Final-Fan on 03 March 2012

RolStoppable said:

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I do wonder how the wave could possibly miss him; and yet he probably was used to that place so it would seem likely he was fine.

Why? The wave was coming from the opposite side he was facing.

Well, the wave looks like it's about 50 feet tall, or 15 meters or whatever, and starting to curl around the sides. It would only take a tiny bit of that water to make serious trouble for him.

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