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From: YourName@YourISP.com
In article ,
hayesstw@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:57:01 +0800, 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.
>
> Or better still, if only everyone would adopt the SI standard of yyyy-mm-dd
> for numerical dates.
>
> It makes sorting dates in a database so much easier, because you don't have
to
> do any fancy programming to achieve it.
The best option is to drop the month numbers entirely and use four digit years.
"1 Mar, 2013" and "Mar 1, 2013" (if Americans insist on continuing to do
things ass-first) are both easily understandable.
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