In Australia we type the date correctly and logically; today is 6-1-2012 . The sixth day of the first month of 2012.

In the USA you have this convoluted  1-6-2012, which of course means the first day of June 2012.

Tomorrow in Australia will be the seventh day of the first month of 2012; 7-1-2012.

In the USA you will be starting July; 1-7-2012.

Why is this so? Except of course we a re 24 hours ahead, but that need not come into the discussion

Cindy; with another Earth shattering post.

January 6, 2012.
01/06/2012

vs.

The 6th of January, 2012.
06/01/2012

That's why.

But who uses Jan 6/ 1/2012?

Hahaha that is indeed one of the most mundane quibbles I've seen in awhile. It's wonderful.

I used to study Spanish and I love languages, so I've run into this a lot. Ah, it's all the same to me. I personally have a harder time with how some languages use their commas and periods differently when referring to monetary values.

Quote from: Cindy James on January 06, 2012, 03:02:35 AM
But who uses Jan 6/ 1/2012?

The Jan is the 1. You're duplicating.

It differs from country to country.
I'm pretty sure Americans aren't the only people who date things this way.
Really, it's the the month/day of that month/year vs day of that month/month/year.
Frankly, it makes less sense to me to put the day before knowing what month it belongs to, but I guess that's because I was brainwashed into dating things this way...no, honestly, I probably have been. That and not sleeping...Mon Dieu.


Psst. Honestly, you could argue that there's lesss logic in Americans still using the imperial system over the metric.
>_<

Moi? Guilty of mundane quibbles? Sacre Blu Cheese.

But shouldn't the day come first?

Ok you have a marvellous night, he, she or whatever takes you to orgasmic heights. You pass out from la petite morte (I think, I did fail French, as a language, I passed in other ways )

Slowly you awake the next day, do you want to know what day it is or what month it is?

Quote from: Cindy James on January 06, 2012, 03:17:31 AM
Slowly you awake the next day, do you want to know what day it is or what month it is?

Neither. I want to snuggle up with her under the covers and maybe have sex again.

Just to confuse things, I understand that the Armed Forces in the US use the British system.  31/12/2011 etc.

I can hardly stand to wake up to another day of this ridiculous world let alone care how anyone marks their calender 

Every day is one closer to "the chop!"

If the first was V M day then how you mark your calendar would matter. One way you would only be celebrated on the first of each month or 12 days per years, the other way you would be celebrated all of January or31 days of the year.


V M day celebrations would be even better if they were paid holidays of course.

Jason said.

I'm pretty sure Americans aren't the only people who date things this way.

Who else does?

Ridiculous? My sister calls me ridiculous! Sacre Blu Cheese with la small cracker type things.

I reckon my gift of the French language will only improve Susan's; Cindy mulls quietly to herself.

V M day?

Quote from: justmeinoz on January 06, 2012, 03:39:33 AM
Every day is one closer to "the chop!"

Whatever that means

Quote from: Cindy James on January 06, 2012, 03:47:52 AM
Jason said.

I'm pretty sure Americans aren't the only people who date things this way.

Who else does?

Ridiculous? My sister calls me ridiculous! Sacre Blu Cheese with la small cracker type things.

I reckon my gift of the French language will only improve Susan's; Cindy mulls quietly to herself.

No-one called you any such thing



V M Day? What? I've got a headache 

I'm always struggling with the date in the US.
The same thing counts for the temperature, I think the only country who is using F, is the US.
Or the weights, they don't use the metric system, the distance with miles and feet instead of meters.

I also think Cindy is doing quite well in French, long time ago since I heard the words le petit mort, it sounds so poetic for an orgasm.

Why are the Americans doing that, je ne s'ais pas, maybe to confuse the rest of the world.
So, fromage blue, pour moi aussi.

câlins
Annette

2003-11-09: the ISO 8601 international standard orders the components of a date like this, and additionally uses leading zeros, for example, 0813-03-01, to be easily read and sorted by computers.

All I can tell,
Axélle

We revolted against british rule over 200 years ago

so we changed a lot of stuff just to be different

so there

phtttpph

Quote from: Axélle-Michélle on January 06, 2012, 05:23:43 AM
2003-11-09: the ISO 8601 international standard orders the components of a date like this, and additionally uses leading zeros, for example, 0813-03-01, to be easily read and sorted by computers.

All I can tell,
Axélle

Yes ISO for the win. It is hands down better than all the rest. No ambiguously since it uses or not leading zeros. It also sorts perfect by both computer as Axelle said, but also on paper. Pretend you have a set of tickets if they are numbered this way it s every so much each to sort.

Ironically, despite the date format we use here in the U.S., when I am speaking to someone I always refer to it by the day first, then the month.

For example...

"Today is the sixth of January."
However, we'd write this as 01/06/2012
01 (January; first month of the year) /06 (Sixth day of the month) /2012 (year)

Regardless, I don't know why it is the way it is here.  As per the ISO system, I am beyond confused.

  A lot of times in the Navy, we used the Julian date.  February 10, 1974 would be 1974 041.  There were conversion charts, but the single day desk calendar had that day's Julian number in the corner of the square.  With December 31, 1974 being 1974 365.  Of course the number is 1 day up past February 29,  1976 as December 31, 1976 being 1976 366 due to it being a leap year. 
  Joelene