Actually, that's a really good question. I have a better one though: why do YOU do it differently?
Why do Americans do the date differently?
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Personally, I write it as such: 1 Jan 11. It makes more sense to me and makes it easy to differentiate between the three categories (numbers/letters/numbers).
However, it's easy to see that this is just another America-bashing thread. "God, you Yanks are so STUPID! Stop doing it that way; you should do it OUR way, because OUR way is RIGHT! We did it first!" Some people won't be happy until we write "colours" and say "leff-tenant". Not going to happen, and they'll never be happy.
However, it's easy to see that this is just another America-bashing thread. "God, you Yanks are so STUPID! Stop doing it that way; you should do it OUR way, because OUR way is RIGHT! We did it first!" Some people won't be happy until we write "colours" and say "leff-tenant". Not going to happen, and they'll never be happy.
Do you live in America? I live have lived in the mid-west all my life and I have always heard the month first, even on tv and the internet. It would be interesting if it varied by region.88chaz88 said:
Ok lease don't laugh.... I've seen that image plenty of times before, but i don't know what it means or where it originates from.Irridium said:I have a theory:
Because they would say the date be "It is September the 8th of 1877" and so they had it like that instead. It's just tradition like keeping the old British Imperial system of measurements.Rockchimp69 said:
Its troll face, it came from some cartoon which didn't make any sense but people thought it was funnyGrizzlerBorno said:Ok lease don't laugh.... I've seen that image plenty of times before, but i don't know what it means or where it originates from.Irridium said:I have a theory:
You realize most Western nations did the exact same thing right? The whole colonization of Africa and all. Hell the French Foreign Legion had to move its headquarters to France after France lost Algeria it's birthplace. The reasons were stupid as shit, some did it to spread Christianity, France conquered West Africa in order to restore its honor lost when Germany repeatedly invaded it (before WWI, by then Germany had spanked France 4 times in a row). Keep in mind they kept these colonies for a long damn time, it wasn't until the 60's when Africa became independent for example, another example is the fact that Britain owned and controlled Hong Kong until 1995 for no other reason then "We got this city from winning a war to keep selling the Chinese Opium"SageRuffin said:
Otherwise we're not really there to impose our belief systems on them as much as we are there to keep security, that's all the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are for, no one cared about how the Afghanni's were doing enough to do the same thing in the Spanish American war with the Cubans we're there mostly to kill the terrorist groups that attacked us. Keep in mind the US is the major power in NATO and the UN so it is its duty to do this shit, Britain has almost as many men in Afghanistan as the US.
Also many people in Afghanistan want the US to defeat the Taliban, few tribal leaders step forward as they're terrified of the Taliban.
Good point, although you did out and out lose America.MrEnigami said:
I really want to make a Canada joke here, but I promised I'd be nice to them for the new year.
Oh yes I forgot that every other country except the US is open and free to everyone. Forget France kicking out the gypsies, or the Italian soccer game a few years ago where everytime the black player got the ball, the stadium started to make monkey noises, or hell even the subject of the thread.SageRuffin said:
Americans aren't being different to be different. We developed our own style of things. Thats it. Period. We didn't all sit down as a country 200 years ago and say "Fuck the world, we are special so we will do what we want.
Oh and England didn't give the colonies back. They cut their losses after getting their asses handed to them.
I believe it's because the British (and probably others) say the date:
The 1st of January 2011.
01/01/11
DD/MM/YY
Whereas the Americans say:
January the 1st, 2011.
01/01/11
MM/DD/YY
Therefore we do our short dates in the same way. (Really bad date to try and show the difference isn't it?) XD
The 1st of January 2011.
01/01/11
DD/MM/YY
Whereas the Americans say:
January the 1st, 2011.
01/01/11
MM/DD/YY
Therefore we do our short dates in the same way. (Really bad date to try and show the difference isn't it?) XD
England isn't an island it's a country along with Scotland and Wales that make up the island of great britain which contains numerous small islands as well.mr_rubino said:
Japan is several thousand islands not just one. I'm not attacking you just letting you know
Look it up on wikipedia. No seriously, go now. [a src="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date"]Now, Fo![/a]
What's silly about it? This isn't supposed to be a thread where people just complain about other cultures being different. I was just wondering what the logic behind it was because I couldn't identify it.mr_rubino said:
Personally I don't really care about "losing" or "giving away" colonies, because one day Earth will be completely united anyway and when that happens it won't be under any one country's flag.Ironic Pirate said:
No, because there's no discussion value on wikipedia. One person will have an idea about it and write it and then someone else will come along and replace it with their own idea.Twilight_guy said:
You'd know this if you had read my OP.
It made me think Uncharted 3 was going to release on the 1st of January instead of the 11th of November. It only did so for a few moments, but after realising the truth I was a saaaad saaaad panda.Xojins said:
I say down with that American nonsense!
In one of my previous jobs I we had to work with American legislation alongside UK. In order to prevent confusion over this issue all dates had to be written as DD-MMM-YYYY e.g. 21-Jan-2011.
5 years later I still can't bring myself to using dd/mm/yy for that very reason!
5 years later I still can't bring myself to using dd/mm/yy for that very reason!
It was a military tactic, that way when the redcoats found a letter they would expect the attack on the wrong day...duh. 
I think this came down to some data keeping group like the accountants of government as stated somewhere above me. Those guys like to make all sorts of rules and changes.
I think this came down to some data keeping group like the accountants of government as stated somewhere above me. Those guys like to make all sorts of rules and changes.
Because in America we do things our way! Even if it isn't the most convientent way and everyone else is doing something different. America, fuck yeah!
Seriously though we in the States do tend to do that. We use a differnt messuring system, we arrange the date recently, we call football soccer, and I don't know how many things. I'm sure that most other nations had odd customs like that, its just that they've changed it to be like other countries. So it isn't the US being stubborn, its us being individualistic and not conforming like the rest of you!
Seriously though we in the States do tend to do that. We use a differnt messuring system, we arrange the date recently, we call football soccer, and I don't know how many things. I'm sure that most other nations had odd customs like that, its just that they've changed it to be like other countries. So it isn't the US being stubborn, its us being individualistic and not conforming like the rest of you!
