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Tricky D posted:Who says the twenty-first of December, two-thousand eighteen; Some languages don't have the "of" to deal with in that structure, which makes it a lot less awkward to say. Plenty of the Brits and Irish I work with say it that way too, dropping the "of."
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Yeah but we're talking about why Americans abbreviate it that way. Context is important.
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Tricky D posted:Yeah but we're talking about why Americans abbreviate it that way. Context is important. Uh, what? You're claiming that Americans write dates that way because that's how it's spoken, and everyone else is trying to tell you that you speak dates that way because that's how you were taught to write them.
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Dec 25, 2018 05:18
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there are linguists standing in corners screaming because of this derail
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Dec 25, 2018 05:20
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Turns out all the dates in Moby Dick are written in day month format so I surrender.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:You misspelled YYYY-MON-DD I too love having spreadsheet rows sort from April to September
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:I too love having spreadsheet rows sort from April to September Use numbers, you loving liability.
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5er posted:Use numbers, you loving liability. MM mean 12 MON means Dec
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Dec 25, 2018 06:01
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i once saw someone break a (software) build line because they accidentally started stamping builds with short month. they made the code change in May so nobody noticed the problem for weeks
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Dec 25, 2018 06:04
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If you're using dates for any kind of analysis, number crunching or programming use ANSIDATE format. yyyymmdd Everything else like emails or whatever, just use what everyone else does in your locale.
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Dec 25, 2018 06:06
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lol if you posted:i once saw someone break a (software) build line because they accidentally started stamping builds with short month. they made the code change in May so nobody noticed the problem for weeks We've managed to avoid that by having everyone do everything in full ISO format, we just have a delightful thing where some of our DBs are in PST/PDT and some are in UTC so you have to perpetually keep in mind what a "timestamp" means depending on which one you're interacting with did I mention they're all stored timezone-naive 
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All dates in this format or you are going to hell: The 25th day of our Lord of the 12th month of our Lord of the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen.
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Dec 25, 2018 06:12
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Yes but now let's discuss 12 vs 24 hour time.
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i prefer metric decimal time
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:We've managed to avoid that by having everyone do everything in full ISO format, we just have a delightful thing where some of our DBs are in PST/PDT and some are in UTC so you have to perpetually keep in mind what a "timestamp" means depending on which one you're interacting with can put humans into space and we still can't do timezone poo poo correctly grumble i says. don't even get me started on hyderabad with their freaky half-hour zones
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Dec 25, 2018 06:16
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just use metric decimal time
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Dec 25, 2018 06:18
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I’m sorry, the correct answer was Swatch Internet Time.
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Dec 25, 2018 06:26
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Good god bring back long long man or anything other than this date format talk. This thread is going to end up shoe less.
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pseudorandom name posted:I’m sorry, the correct answer was Swatch Internet Time. https://www.whattimeisitrightnow.com/
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Just throw the whole arbitrary thing in a bin. Praise the sun while it's up, sleep when it's not.
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:I too love having spreadsheet rows sort from April to September 
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Free Market Mambo posted:They own Al-Qaeda? Osama's terror attacks killed 2996, of which 1402 in the WTC North Tower. Bakr's crummy infrastructure killed at least 3465 in major incidents alone, of which 2431 on the Street-204 intersection.
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oohhboy posted:Good god bring back long long man or anything other than this date format talk. This thread is going to end up shoe less. If Longlong Man left you, it’s your own fault 
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oohhboy posted:bring back long long man
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oohhboy posted:bring back long long man
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OSHA please, no t stupid date formats.
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oohhboy posted:Good god bring back long long man or anything other than this date format talk. This thread is going to end up shoe less. would you say this is a long long derail?
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e: double post for some reason
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Date standards are under the purview of ISO and don't belong in this thread
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Shifty Nipples posted:e: double post for some reason Posting is loving wonky all over since the forums came back after being down for a while this AM
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Burt Sexual posted:OSHA please, no t stupid date formats.
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Splicer posted:Didn't some NASA stuff crash because of stupid date formats? No, it was discrepancies between attitude control system that used imperial units and navigation software that used metric.
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Dec 25, 2018 18:52
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Shifty Nipples posted:e: double post for some reason A long long post?
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Proteus Jones posted:Posting is loving wonky all over since the forums came back after being down for a while this AM Do you think old threads are going spooky again?  E: I blame the use of incorrect date formats.  Radium!
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Schadenboner posted:Do you think old threads are going spooky again?
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Splicer posted:yeah it's confused dec 25 for oct 31 Are you saying all our base are belong to Radium?
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jobson groeth posted:Are you saying all our base are belong to Radium? 
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jobson groeth posted:An apartment building in Sydney has been evacuated because it sounds like it's going to collapse quote:Police said engineers had informed them the building had moved 1-2mm but it was unclear whether further movement had occurred or would potentially occur. Given that tall buildings move more than this when the wind blows, this has gotta be a garbled explanation.
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weirdly i think i read that it actually moved _up_ those 1-2mm
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Phanatic posted:Given that tall buildings move more than this when the wind blows, this has gotta be a garbled explanation. Theres a difference between swaying in the wind and a permanent shift in the structure.
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