Posted on 01/31/2016 3:55:51 PM PST by Kaslin
Europeans write the date like that. Not Americans.
Well they finally got something right, but not on their own really. They are merely adhering to ISO 8601, perhaps the only time an internationalist body used common sense. Most times they are merely elitist, and arbitrary. ~cough~ metric ~cough~ ~cough~
when in the Navy we wrote the date as dd/mm/yyyy and I have continued that pattern into my 70s on my checks and other correspondence.
At least the yyyy versus yy is a discriminator and greatly reduces the confusion factor. Our public schools have force-fed our kids mm/dd/yy forever, and still do. And then came email, instant messaging, Facebook and Twitter to spur new inventive shorthand. And we haven't even mentioned all the possible time formats.
Somewhere around the time of the Y2K circus, I fell into the habit of writing dates as yyyy-mm-dd.That format has two advantages:
- While the format is possibly unfamiliar, nobody above room temperature IQ can fail to recognize its meaning
- It sorts correctly, even in software that doesn't recognize it as a date
After 2000 I remember sorting a relative's medication and saw lots of expiration dates like 01.02.01 or 03/03/02 and will never forget that. For doctor appointments or court dates or lots of other examples these become useless numbers on a piece of paper. It is stunning the amount of rabbit holes we must explore for lack of common sense.
We live in the left-to-right reading-writing world where we put MSD ( most significant digit ) first and LSD last ( screw with their minds by writing this year as 1620 or 6102 to demonstrate the weirdness of the other ideas ). Computer sort algorithms and GUI file lists naturally default to MSD->LSD. Even with that, have a look through someone's folder or flashdrive full of wildly dated photos thanks to camera/cellphone software lunacy. Each and every possible mistake will be found to exist.
Idiocracy, it's a cookbook!
The date is indicated to be in the format mm/dd/yyyy, but she has 22/01/2009. Did she do that to try to invalidate the document?
Well the Clintons do hold multiple wins in the National Word Parsing Championships.
I saw that, too. I should have scrolled down.
And here I thought it was the hangover...(8^D)
While wagging finger at Helen Thomas: “I did not have sex with that woman.” (Makes fist) “Monica Lewinsky.” Just enough pause in there to put a period at the end of the first statement, and a smirk of knowing he was pulling something off. That, and “depends on what the meaning of is, is” are textbook cases.
I recall being puzzled at a reference to C. H. Tung while reading an article in the South China Morning Post (Singapore). I quickly realized from context that the author was referring to Tung Chee-hwa, who headed the Hong Kong government after the British handed the territory over.
Hildabeast considers herself to be exempt from all laws, rules and regulations that stand in her way of gaining power.
that said, why did Vince Foster just pop into my mind?????????
“Nope; convenience/sloppiness doesn’t count as GIVING. “
Maybe, but if people like spies died and it could be proven to have come from the hacking of unsecured servers, whether it was sloppy or otherwise, there would be intense pressure for calling this a ‘given’.
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