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From: robban@clubtelco.com
On 23/08/13 2:55 PM, Your Name wrote:
> 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.
I was referring to the use of letter abbreviations for the months rather
than numbers, and this is regrettably not standard even though it
prevents any confusion between the American method and what the rest of
the world uses.
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Robert Bannister
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