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 fatesdefiance |
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Posts: 3105 09-28-07 7:08 PM Community Member |
Is this a universal board property, or is there something in my preferences I can do to change it back?
Perhaps it's just cause I'm an ignernt 'merican, but I can't stand having the post dates in dd/mm/yyyy format. It totally screws me up. Any way I can set mine to show as mm/dd/yyyy?
Hunter Tarryn Valewalker -- Twisted Fates
(Prexus - Retired) Nightshade Tarryn Valewalker -- Kingfisher Brigade EQ2 - Unrest Tarryn of Dale, Hunter -- Dies Irae LotRO - Meneldor |
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Posts: 1093 09-28-07 8:48 PM Sleeps with Butterflies |
Egad! I shall smite Kia or Creac for this travesty!
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Posts: 1093 09-28-07 8:54 PM Sleeps with Butterflies |
I fixed it back to the good ol 'merican way!
Not sure why/how it changed - no mention of it in the log. |
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Posts: 3105 09-28-07 9:30 PM Community Member |
Thanks a lot! I just looked again and wondered if I had suffered a sudden attack of dyslexia that had as quickly vanished...
Hunter Tarryn Valewalker -- Twisted Fates
(Prexus - Retired) Nightshade Tarryn Valewalker -- Kingfisher Brigade EQ2 - Unrest Tarryn of Dale, Hunter -- Dies Irae LotRO - Meneldor |
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Posts: 2121 09-28-07 10:58 PM Mortal Wombat |
Meh, I should change it back. Should make you lot live with it for a week!
Farwarden Creac Peregrinate
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Posts: 2558 09-28-07 11:53 PM Mera's Master |
Wouldn't bother me, Creac, as I deal with it from a company in Australia daily! They always send Bills of Lading in the Euro format!
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Posts: 2121 09-29-07 3:27 AM Mortal Wombat |
It's the "rest of the world" format, mate, not just Euro :-)
(yes, there are other places such as Japan that use it due to US influence in rebuilding after WWII) Farwarden Creac Peregrinate
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Posts: 17595 09-30-07 1:18 AM
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next thing we see will be extra vowels placed in the buttons!
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Posts: 3105 10-02-07 6:44 AM Community Member |
You know, the metric system is great, and I see why most everyone else uses it. But the dd/mm/yy thing is just annoying. How the heck do you sort a table
properly by date if you use that system? I mean, if you have records that cover a couple of months, with the month first you can sort by date and get each
month's data items ordered properly grouped by day. If you have the day first, wouldn't you have records from the same day on different months all
jumbled together? Ugh.
Hunter Tarryn Valewalker -- Twisted Fates
(Prexus - Retired) Nightshade Tarryn Valewalker -- Kingfisher Brigade EQ2 - Unrest Tarryn of Dale, Hunter -- Dies Irae LotRO - Meneldor |
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Posts: 2409 10-02-07 2:10 PM |
You're kidding, right? How the fuck is mm/dd/yyyy more sortable than dd/mm/yyyy? At least it's semantically sane, working from least to most
significant value.
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Posts: 2121 10-02-07 4:32 PM Mortal Wombat |
And the main ISO standard is yyyymmddhhmmss used, for example, by every bank in the world that communicates with any other bank in the world.
The order has nothing to do with ability to sort as Ganders has pointed out. And, yes, ddmmyyyy is a far more logical in progression. Farwarden Creac Peregrinate
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Posts: 7112 10-02-07 7:15 PM 100% Soybean |
Luckily this isn't the bank and America isn't logical!
Viva la mmddyyyy!
I'm not givin' you attitude. I just want another drink.
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Posts: 2409 10-03-07 3:53 AM |
Actually I'd love to know how America ended up with such a fucked-up date format, which seems to be not only utterly irrational but also unique in the
world. Anyone know the history behind it?
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Posts: 2121 10-03-07 6:36 AM Mortal Wombat |
I dunno, but they're not even consistent.
On the immigration form to clear customs, the first date request is listed in dd/mm/yyyy format (it then changes in the rest of the form). They celebrate "4th of July" not "July 4th". Google is full of a few rants about how silly the format is and numerous coding methods for dealing with the format but nothing to point out how or why it came about (not from just a quick scan). Farwarden Creac Peregrinate
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Posts: 3105 10-03-07 9:25 PM Community Member |
How the fuck is mm/dd/yyyy more sortable than dd/mm/yyyy?Well, I work with lots of tables of data where the date field on a record looks like this: E:09-01-2007 07:00 L:09-01-2007 07:00 The way I have to have it sorted--ie., contiguous data across days in chronological order--doesn't work very well if it's formatted with days first, if there are records with similar days of different months. Yeah, I could chop that text field up into a format recognizeable by Excel and sort chronologically that way regardless of the date format used, but that's a lot of manipulation for something I can otherwise just sort ascending and be done with. I wasn't debating which is most semantically sensible...just commenting on something that affects my work.
Hunter Tarryn Valewalker -- Twisted Fates
(Prexus - Retired) Nightshade Tarryn Valewalker -- Kingfisher Brigade EQ2 - Unrest Tarryn of Dale, Hunter -- Dies Irae LotRO - Meneldor |
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Posts: 2409 10-04-07 3:18 AM |
Yes, but it's just as unsortable as soon as you cross a year boundary.
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Posts: 3105 10-04-07 4:06 AM Community Member |
Not really, unless you've got more than a year of records you're working with, which I usually do not. Of course, it would be nice if my
company's transportation management system exported data to Excel in a more efficient format altogether, instead of that jumbled mess of plain text that I
posted a tiny bit of. I mean, any record we export to a spreadsheet from our system has the location name, city, county, state, and zip code all in ONE BLOODY
FIELD! Grrrr.
Hunter Tarryn Valewalker -- Twisted Fates
(Prexus - Retired) Nightshade Tarryn Valewalker -- Kingfisher Brigade EQ2 - Unrest Tarryn of Dale, Hunter -- Dies Irae LotRO - Meneldor |
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Posts: 17595 10-04-07 12:23 PM
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who's the superpower? that's what i thought bitches!
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Posts: 2121 10-05-07 4:00 AM Mortal Wombat |
Cool - Trike agrees, there's no logical reason for it :-)
Farwarden Creac Peregrinate
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Posts: 4567 10-07-07 8:43 PM BANNED |
When you question our date format the terrorists win.
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Posts: 2121 10-07-07 8:46 PM Mortal Wombat |
They just aren't sure which date they win.
Farwarden Creac Peregrinate
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Posts: 7112 10-08-07 8:43 AM 100% Soybean |
Maybe that's why the Sept 11 intel was bad. They weren't sure if it was Sept 11th or Nov 9th.
Wakka wakka wakka!
I'm not givin' you attitude. I just want another drink.
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Posts: 1333 10-08-07 9:30 PM |
ddMonyy plzthnx - as in 07Oct07.
"I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying `Yeah, well F#CK YOU!` I thought I had won. The other kid was speechless. I thought that was
what we were tryin' to do." - Ron White
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Posts: 4567 10-09-07 12:43 AM BANNED |
Time isn't mm:hh, so why should dates be ddyy?
I'm going to be a rebel and go YYMMDD. That way I get to assert my American arrogance and stick it to "the man" at the same time. |
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Posts: 2409 10-10-07 9:50 AM |
Didn't we learn anything from the Y2k payday - ahem, I mean, 'crisis'? Should at least be YYYYmmdd
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Posts: 4567 10-10-07 4:16 PM BANNED |
I made some good money off that. Why would I want to put myself out of a potential job the next time Y2K rolls around?
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