max Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 It's we Brits who are awkward when it comes to date formats. The international format is ccyymmdd and is being increasingly adopted as the standard because computers can sort it more easily. Yawn, boring, blah, blah .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cycleracer Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 Originally posted by Hodge It wasn't intended as a joke, and has offended, for which I apologise sincerely I'm not sure what I meant to be honest - I suppose I was just wondering why we have adopted a different numerical date format (as opposed to saying 11/9). On reflection, it was incredibly flippant, I shouldn't have posted it, and have inadvertently dug a hole from which I probably can't get out. Once again, I did not intend to offend, but the damage is done. My sincere apologies. Ah lighten up Hodge, not a problem, we all upset folk on different occations on here, no doubt some would find your comment amusing to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted September 13, 2003 Author Share Posted September 13, 2003 Yeah, I didn't really get offended by it - my comment about the fact it included a subject whatever the date format - was just an evil attempt to ruin your joke further Us British our thicker skinned that those across the pond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 not strictly related but..... 911 is also the american emergency services number. Ours is obviously 999. In Europe it's 112. If you ring 112 here you still get connected to the emergency services. BUT, if you dial 911 you don't. I would've thought 911 was better known than 112 due to the all pervading Yank culture - yet 911 is not accepted. Weird non? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t020 Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 To be fair to Hodge, in Britain our usual date format is Day-Month-Year, i.e. 11/9/2001, making it 11/9 to us. Yet another Americanism we will no doubt adopt into our language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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