Final-Fan said:
TWRoO said:
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.
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Considering the English have mostly stopped using it should be proof enough it's outdated (Road signs in the UK still use Miles and yards though, and in most places both imperial and metric weights are given...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.
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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.
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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.