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Re: I, Dave, have a major announcement that will...

Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 8:07 pm
by martyn_hill
...which for our non-US readers is 11th January (not 1st November!)

Will you give us any clues?

Can't wait :-)

Re: I, Dave, have a major announcement that will...

Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 9:20 pm
by Dave
AKA my 50th birthday.

This won't be Tetroid level. It will be useful though.

Re: I, Dave, have a major announcement that will...

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 12:38 pm
by Peter
martyn_hill wrote:...which for our non-US readers is 11th January (not 1st November!)
I guess most non-US readers, also in Germany, write day before month like Dave. :D I'm only aware of the British who swap it. ;)

Re: I, Dave, have a major announcement that will...

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 3:57 pm
by Dave
I think the UK and all the EU does DD/MM/YY. Here in the good ol' US of A they do MM/DD/YY, which makes no sense to me. That's like writing 12.3456 as 12.5634.

One of the items is OS-related. One is power-related. One is a birthday surprise.

Re: I, Dave, have a major announcement that will...

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 5:56 pm
by pjw
US dates are mid-endian

Re: I, Dave, have a major announcement that will...

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 7:59 pm
by swensont
> which makes no sense to me

If it is what you've been doing your whole life, then it makes sense.

Same with driving on the right-hand side of the road. May not make sense for a UKer, but it does for other Europeans and Americans.

Tim

Re: I, Dave, have a major announcement that will...

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:07 pm
by Cristian
Dave wrote:I think the UK and all the EU does DD/MM/YY
Yes, you're right. You made me notice that the date format in this Forum is curiously MMDDYY: strange, isn't it?

Re: I, Dave, have a major announcement that will...

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:15 pm
by Dave
The admins of this forum are drunkards that would make Hemingway blush. We should be grateful it works at all. :P

Re: [OT] I, Dave, have a major announcement that will...

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:29 pm
by Cristian
swensont wrote:Same with driving on the right-hand side of the road. May not make sense for a UKer, but it does for other Europeans and Americans.
Generally speaking I think I got your meaning and, by and large, I agree. But I think this comparison is not very fitting. The driving side is arbitrary, while the sense of DMY (or YMD) is to follow a temporal order: from the shorter period to the longest one (or vice versa).

Re: I, Dave, have a major announcement that will...

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:30 pm
by Cristian
Dave wrote:The admins of this forum are drunkards that would make Hemingway blush. We should be grateful it works at all. :P
:D :lol: