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Only useful for people who format their dates in crazy, mixed up mm-dd-yy. Even then, a bit too geeky for my sensibilities.
by forbes 15y ago
Only useful for people who format their dates in crazy, mixed up mm-dd-yy. Even then, a bit too geeky for my sensibilities.
- riobard 15y agoThis is gonna be downvoted, but I must say, ”mm-dd-yy is totally nuts!” I can accept “Feb 8, 2011”, but definitely not mm-dd-yy. The next one is letter-size paper. Well, another holy war...
- SODaniel 15y agoAs someone born and raised in northern Europe I agree that YYYY-MM-DD is the only format that really makes sense. Then again, I also don't understand why everyone is not on the Metric system..
- mvzink 15y agoAs someone born and raised in the States I agree that YYYY-MM-DD is the only format that really makes sense. Furthermore, I don't understand why we are not on the Metric system...
- elviejo 15y agoOnly the USA, Burma (Myanmar) and Liberia, still don't use it.
- mvzink 15y agoThe confusing part is (here in the states), all the kids do actually learn the Metric system in their grade school science classes, starting in elementary school (primary, I think they call it elsewhere). Everyone I know knows the Metric system, but they give me queer looks when I use it, e.g. in conversation. Not like it's insulting their American-ness or something either; I really don't get it. It's worst with temperature, where people have to fight their training to estimate the temperature in Fahrenheit.
- sukuriant 15y agoPlease write all of your comments in emacs. [edit: for the reference, see http://forums.xkcd.com/ http://forums.xkcd.com/ - Religious Wars]
- afhof 15y agoIts just an Endian difference
- rarrrrrr 15y agoI'm sure everyone will convert to middle Endian eventually. :P