Lizard
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Post by Lizard on Oct 23, 2021 22:41:49 GMT
YYYY/MM/DD That should seriously be the global standard. I could live with this, but I would prefer the other way around. As long is it goes in order, though.
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Post by dfunked on Oct 23, 2021 22:46:35 GMT
If you do it the other way around it's just in reverse order, so you're back to square one where no fucker knows what's going on... Just do it in proper order and we'll all sleep safely.
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Post by Lizard on Oct 23, 2021 22:51:42 GMT
How can you not know what's going on: day-month-year. What's hard about that?
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Post by Danno on Oct 23, 2021 22:54:15 GMT
I mean, they have a point. Time on a day to day basis is big first, small later. Why not the calendar? But they really decided to mess that up
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 23, 2021 22:56:08 GMT
Year first make sense for sorting reasons. You then narrow down by month and day
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Post by KD on Oct 23, 2021 22:57:27 GMT
Modern computer auto sorting makes sense more with MM/DD/YYYY, nicely organises it, just what I heard people on a podcast argue, I've done DD/MM/YYYY and will continue.
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Post by Danno on Oct 23, 2021 22:58:12 GMT
Modern computer auto sorting makes sense more with MM/DD/YYYY, nicely organises it, just what I heard people on a podcast argue, I've done DD/MM/YYYY and will continue. were they American
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Post by KD on Oct 23, 2021 22:59:59 GMT
Of course
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 23, 2021 23:01:04 GMT
This is how I always wanted to spend my Saturday evenings
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Post by Lizard on Oct 23, 2021 23:01:59 GMT
On a side note I find it very annoying that Excel will not work with dates pre-1900.
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Post by cubby on Oct 23, 2021 23:04:07 GMT
Never forget 9/11, the 9th of November.
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Post by Danno on Oct 23, 2021 23:06:58 GMT
This is how I always wanted to spend my Saturday evenings Heh
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Post by dfunked on Oct 23, 2021 23:08:06 GMT
At least we've moved past the best font chat...
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Post by Lizard on Oct 23, 2021 23:08:07 GMT
Never forget 9/11, the 9th of November. Sisqo and Delta Goodrem's birthday. What a day.
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Post by Danno on Oct 23, 2021 23:15:46 GMT
At least we've moved past the best font chat... We have NOT! It's Verdana
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Post by Sarfrin on Oct 23, 2021 23:18:16 GMT
The best kind of regional differences are totally made up words. On the rock, some people say "five and twenty to" instead of "twenty five to". My Mum says that. She's from Suffolk. ETA Given your choice of Center Parcs, is the rock Portland?
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Post by jono62 on Oct 23, 2021 23:18:43 GMT
At least we've moved past the best font chat... We have NOT! It's Verdana Never! It's Garamond.
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Lizard
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Post by Lizard on Oct 23, 2021 23:28:04 GMT
Garamond can do one.
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Post by jono62 on Oct 23, 2021 23:35:13 GMT
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Post by Danno on Oct 23, 2021 23:38:46 GMT
The best kind of regional differences are totally made up words. On the rock, some people say "five and twenty to" instead of "twenty five to". My Mum says that. She's from Suffolk. ETA Given your choice of Center Parcs, is the rock Portland?
I lived in Hamworthy when I was a tyke and we went to Portland a few times. It was disappointing for a six year old that just wanted to find dinosaurs
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Post by Danno on Oct 23, 2021 23:39:45 GMT
Century Gothic is decent as well
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Post by khanivor on Oct 24, 2021 1:24:07 GMT
I patiently await meeting someone who says, say, “working conditions were terrible in the one thousand eight hundreds”
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2021 1:24:47 GMT
While I'm on that subject, I've never understood why midday is 12pm. If the 11 that came just before is 11am, then surely it's 12am? Then 1pm going up to 12pm midnight. I guess because it would be weird for 12:00 to be am, but 12:01 to be pm. But... wouldn't 12:59AM still be AM, with the switch being 1PM? On that note, I hate that we count centuries at 0 and not at 100. Why was the year 2000 the beginning of the 21st century?
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Post by Dougs on Oct 24, 2021 7:05:14 GMT
The best kind of regional differences are totally made up words. On the rock, some people say "five and twenty to" instead of "twenty five to". My Mum says that. She's from Suffolk. ETA Given your choice of Center Parcs, is the rock Portland?
Nah, Isle of Wight. Given the prisons, The Rock seems apt. Five and twenty to must be a rural thing.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 24, 2021 7:23:59 GMT
I ask because I'm listening to an audiobook where characters do a lot of griMACE(ing), and it is fucking doing my head in, every time the narrator says it it's like needles in my ears. I'd always put a small accent on the first syllable (so, GRI-muss), and this book made me think "have I been pronouncing this word wrong for my entire life?" Maybe I have been! It's an uncomfortable possibility. Or maybe it's just a regional thing? Joe Abercrombie? I found the same so looked it up and apparently it is grim-ace Lol, how did you know.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Oct 24, 2021 7:50:04 GMT
Joe Abercrombie? I found the same so looked it up and apparently it is grim-ace Lol, how did you know. Somehow I knew it would be Abercrombie too. He loves a Grimace. (Best fantasy author currently publishing imo)
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Post by technoish on Oct 24, 2021 8:17:02 GMT
I guess because it would be weird for 12:00 to be am, but 12:01 to be pm. But... wouldn't 12:59AM still be AM, with the switch being 1PM? On that note, I hate that we count centuries at 0 and not at 100. Why was the year 2000 the beginning of the 21st century? AM is Ante Meridiam and PM is Post Meridiam With Meridiam being middle of the day aka noon. So 12:XX in afternoon has to be PM. The only real confusion is noon and midnight. I understand some style guides suggest using 12 noon and 12 midnight instead of am and pm.
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Post by mothercruncher on Oct 24, 2021 9:09:03 GMT
I use MD/YY/DYMY, I’ve had many jobs.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 24, 2021 9:14:44 GMT
Good to see we're really avoiding leaning into obsessions and madness as we reach middle age.
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Post by Buu on Oct 24, 2021 10:04:59 GMT
Obsessions are good though, right? This week I've been learning how to make my own perfectly balanced mineral water for espresso.
I am 31 and I am not a barista but, I think it's fair to say I'm a boring prick
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