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Scoundrelus
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Posted - 2005.11.09 15:28:00 -
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On my account info it says:
Expires: 11/12/2005 Now is that Month/Day/Year or Day/Month/Year because from what I can see the dates in eve are a bit odd.
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kieron
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Posted - 2005.11.09 16:06:00 -
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Originally by: Scoundrelus On my account info it says:
Expires: 11/12/2005 Now is that Month/Day/Year or Day/Month/Year because from what I can see the dates in eve are a bit odd.
Day, Month, Year. The date system used in EVE follows the European format, not the US format.
kieron Community Manager, EVE Online
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Remedial
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Posted - 2005.11.09 16:31:00 -
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That confuses me too. Do you refer to it as "Eleven Nine" instead of "Nine Eleven" in Europe?
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Elve Sorrow
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Posted - 2005.11.09 16:39:00 -
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Generally call it neither.
Most Dutch i speak to refer to it as 'WTC incident' or simply 'WTC'.
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Matthew
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Posted - 2005.11.09 16:39:00 -
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Originally by: Remedial That confuses me too. Do you refer to it as "Eleven Nine" instead of "Nine Eleven" in Europe?
Generally "Nine Eleven", but we know that it's an American context statement so we expect it to be in the american date format and know what day it refers to.
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Grimster
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Posted - 2005.11.09 16:40:00 -
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Originally by: Remedial That confuses me too. Do you refer to it as "Eleven Nine" instead of "Nine Eleven" in Europe?
Yes, you guys in the "colonies" do things your own way since letting go of daddy's coattails
I confused the hell out of a guy in K-Mart when I went to buy a fishing permit in Florida earlier this year by telling him my DOB was 15/7
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Sirial Soulfly
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Posted - 2005.11.09 16:42:00 -
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Personally I think having to see month before day is very odd.
But then it is how it is, from wikipedia:
Date formats are usually written differently in the short (numerical) form. Christmas Day 2000, for example, is 25/12/00 in Britain and 12/25/00 in the U.S., although occasionally other formats are encountered, such as the ISO 8601 2000-12-25, popular among programmers.
When writing long-form dates it is common for the british to add a superscripted 'st, nd, rd' or 'th' to the day number. The format "December 25, 2000" is generally encountered in the U.S., and widely encountered in the UK as "December 25th 2000". However, the British are more likely than Americans to use the format "25th December 2000" although "25 December 2000" is acceptable in the U.S., and the American grammarians Strunk and White, among others, recommend it. Similarly, in American speech, "December twenty-fifth" is the most likely form, though "the twenty-fifth of December" is also not uncommon. In Britain the latter is more likely, and even when the month is presented first the definite article is still inserted in speech, thus "December the twenty-fifth".
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Calderio
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Posted - 2005.11.09 16:50:00 -
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Bawldeux IV
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Posted - 2005.11.09 17:29:00 -
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Originally by: kieron
Originally by: Scoundrelus On my account info it says:
Expires: 11/12/2005 Now is that Month/Day/Year or Day/Month/Year because from what I can see the dates in eve are a bit odd.
Day, Month, Year. The date system used in EVE follows the European format, not the US format.
<teasemode> whaaaaaaaaaaaa, <slaps head> but those heathens do it wrong <giggles>
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Tessa Vaako
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Posted - 2005.11.09 17:52:00 -
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Here at work we do all of our dates YYYY/MM/DD. Sometimes a YY/MM/DD date sneaks in, and sometimes people get it wrong. Anyone want to guess when 03/04/05 is?
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Roshan longshot
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Posted - 2005.11.09 18:25:00 -
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Originally by: kieron
Originally by: Scoundrelus On my account info it says:
Expires: 11/12/2005 Now is that Month/Day/Year or Day/Month/Year because from what I can see the dates in eve are a bit odd.
Day, Month, Year. The date system used in EVE follows the European format, not the US format.
Us format? November 12, 2005? Or is it December 11, 2005?
Oh you mean the US format is suppose to be 12, november 2005...
Damn 44 years old and you got me confused?
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MOAB DaBomb
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Posted - 2005.11.09 18:26:00 -
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Is there any hope of making it 11-Dec-2005 instead to eliminate the confusion?
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Lardarz B'stard
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Posted - 2005.11.09 18:38:00 -
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I went thru a period thinking that 9/11 happened on the 9th November.
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2005.11.09 18:46:00 -
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Originally by: Lardarz B'stard I went thru a period thinking that 9/11 happened on the 9th November.
lmao. thats pretty ignorant.
still, european time 4tw!
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Rewan Thanas
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Posted - 2005.11.09 19:10:00 -
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Originally by: HippoKing
still, european time 4tw!
True. It is easy to remember: The Nth day of the Nth month in the year X. I don't know why anyone would put the month first. Do 'mercans often loose a month?
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Holland Manners
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Posted - 2005.11.09 20:04:00 -
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The most logical system is YY/MM/DD as this equates alphabetical sorting with date sorting. The British system is the reverse of this, and whilst is does not have the sorting advantage, it at least states the time periods in order of increasing magnitude. The US system makes no sense and I must assume that it followed from the way dates are spoken i.e. "december 25th 2005" becomes 12/25/2005.
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Valeo Galaem
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Posted - 2005.11.09 20:11:00 -
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I'm in the US, but I still prefer the ISO format YYYY.MM.DD
Not only does it make immediate sense when you see it, it's also a nested data structure
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