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   In article , Robert Bannister   
    wrote:   
   > On 23/08/13 3:51 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:   
   > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:23:17 -0500, Doc O'Leary   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >> In article ,   
   > >> Greg Goss  wrote:   
   > >>> Doc O'Leary  wrote:   
   > >>>   
   > >>>> As an aside, I always thought that a good way to get the US public into   
   > >>>> using the metric system would be to market the hell out of metric being   
   > >>>> a way to get *more*.  500 grams is *more* than a pound.  4 liters is   
   > >>>> *more* than a gallon.  100kph is *more* than 60mph.  Gluttony always   
   > >>>> wins in America.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Don't you already use 2 litre pop bottles.   
   > >>   
   > >> No, but just because I'm not a fan of carbonated beverages.  We also   
   > >> have 9mm guns and plenty of gram-based drug traffic.  But it's not the   
   > >> same thing as widespread metric adoption.  Nothing that would give a   
   > >> time traveller from 50 years ago much trouble.   
   > >   
   > > Agreed - though the NATO standard dates (I assume the months are   
   > > translated in non-English speaking areas) are 31Jan2013 or 31Jan13 so   
   > > that no one need question whether 01/12/12 refers to January 12th,   
   > > 2012 or December 1st, 2012.   
   >   
   > If only everyone would adopt that.   
      
   "Everyone" does - it's standard proper English date system. As usual, it's   
   the Americans who decided to go off and do things their own way and then   
   expect everyone else to bow down before them.  :-(   
      
   It's called "The Microsoft Complex", although the problem obviously   
   originated long before Microsoft was around. Microsoft simply ignores the   
   established stanards and makes up it's own, then expects all the other   
   software makers to follow. For example, that Internet Explorer is a   
   complete pain the backside because it has it's own "standsrds" for doing   
   things rather than follow the actual established standards, so web   
   designers have to try and deal with Microsoft's idiocy and it makes web   
   coding more complicated and difficult than it needs to / should be.   
      
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