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10-15-2020 , 10:25 AM

#12576

Didace

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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1

One of the dumbest things about USA is Month Day Year. Cmon.

I would be interested in your arguments for taking this obviously incorrect position.

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10-15-2020 , 10:49 AM

#12577

5 south

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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1

One of the dumbest things about USA is Month Day Year. Cmon.

Date doesn't come close to non metric

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10-15-2020 , 10:56 AM

#12578

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 27,952

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Originally Posted by Didace

I would be interested in your arguments for taking this obviously incorrect position.

Smallest ---->largest = a logical chain of progression.

Middle, Smallest, Largest. = Wat u readin foa?

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10-15-2020 , 11:01 AM

#12579

lonely_but_rich

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Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 24,110

Month: 12 options

Day: 31 options

Year: 6,000 options

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10-15-2020 , 11:11 AM

#12580

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 27,952

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Originally Posted by lonely_but_rich

Month: 12 options

Day: 31 options

Year: 6,000 options

Day, changes every day.
Month changes every month
Year changes every year.

Options is a ridiculous thing to prioritise over the inherent size of the unit.

Its pure dumb on every level and afaik USA is the only country to use this method, because yea its dumb.

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10-15-2020 , 11:15 AM

#12581

that_pope

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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1

One of the dumbest things about USA is Month Day Year. Cmon.

I save all my documents with year, month, date so they are easily sortable by date.

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10-15-2020 , 11:31 AM

#12582

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 27,952

Ive never used software that wasnt able to sort by date meta data.

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10-15-2020 , 12:20 PM

#12583

Tom Ames

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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1

One of the dumbest things about USA is Month Day Year. Cmon.

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Originally Posted by 5 south

Date doesn't come close to non metric

Date doesn't come close to any number of things in 2020 alone.

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10-15-2020 , 12:34 PM

#12584

HUstylez

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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1

We use that method in Canada too. I guess both are used which is frustrating in itself due to lack of consistency, but month/day/year is waaaaaaaay more prevalent from my experience

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10-15-2020 , 12:51 PM

#12585

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 27,952

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Originally Posted by HUstylez

We use that method in Canada too. I guess both are used which is frustrating in itself due to lack of consistency, but month/day/year is waaaaaaaay more prevalent from my experience

There's your experience, then there is being able to check on the internet. Get out much?

EDIT: Sorry read your post wrong, I thought you meant both are used internationally with yank system being more prevalent, when internet tells me both are used internally in Canada. That is the woat of date notation.

Left my original post there because I am big enough to live with the shame.

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10-15-2020 , 12:59 PM

#12586

HUstylez

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Yea just meant Canada lol, we often mix unit systems in casual convos/settings which is annoying, but we def use the month/day/year notation more often which I agree with you is dumb

edit: also did a quick google search because I was now curious and without looking into it further, the suggested reply said "According to wikipedia, the only countries that use the MM/DD/YYYY system are the US, the Philippines, Palau, Canada, and Micronesia" We're in good company

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10-15-2020 , 01:16 PM

#12587

Didace

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How do you say the date of New Year's Day without sounding like an idiot? First January? I think not.

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10-15-2020 , 01:19 PM

#12588

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 27,952

First of January, or January the First.

You do realise that both systems notate this day exactly the same numerically?

Its almost like speaking and writing are two different form of symbology with their own inherent organisational principles, almost.

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10-15-2020 , 01:22 PM

#12589

lonely_but_rich

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Ok professor

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10-15-2020 , 01:24 PM

#12590

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1

Smallest ---->largest = a logical chain of progression.

Middle, Smallest, Largest. = Wat u readin foa?

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Originally Posted by lonely_but_rich

Ok professor

Bolded for truth.

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10-15-2020 , 01:41 PM

#12591

Land O Lakes

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This derail officially sucks.

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10-15-2020 , 01:58 PM

#12592

27offsuit

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*officially derail sucks

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10-15-2020 , 02:16 PM

#12593

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

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Originally Posted by Land O Lakes

This derail officially sucks.

Luckily for me it will all be over by 15.10.20.

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10-15-2020 , 02:37 PM

#12594

steamraise

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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1

First of January, or January the First.

You can say it either way?
But writing it, one way is right and one is wrong?

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10-15-2020 , 02:49 PM

#12595

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

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Originally Posted by steamraise

You can say it either way?
But writing it, one way is right and one is wrong?

Really? Did you even reflect for one second before writing this.

Hint we are not actually talking about writing how we speak it verbatim.

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10-15-2020 , 03:22 PM

#12596

JoeC2012

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It's frustrating how there seems to be a lack of reliable data on the prevalence of "long COVID".

This paper says 24% of cases (mostly mild ones) have symptoms after 90 days: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....07.20208702v1

This study says only 5% of *patients* (I assume this to mean people who seek medical treatment for covid) have symptoms lasting for months: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-he...-idUKKBN26Z39Q

The difference between these is night and day, I'm willing to take more chances if the true rate is closer to the latter, but if the former number is the case it makes me want to exercise much more caution. Crazy that we haven't reached a consensus on this yet; this should probably be informing a lot of societal choices we make.

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10-16-2020 , 04:32 AM

#12597

LektorAJ

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Originally Posted by Garick

If it's like other European languages, the period is like "th" in English. It makes 14 an ordinal number, fourteenth.

Yes, and using the genitive "októbra" instead of nominative "október" is equivalent to saying "of October" - so literally it's the "14th of October".

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Originally Posted by Didace

I would be interested in your arguments for taking this obviously incorrect position.

Hungarians have it right, year - month - day.

The only problem is the faux-Latin month names like "július" and so on.

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Originally Posted by steamraise

You can say it either way?
But writing it, one way is right and one is wrong?

Enjoy your "July Fourth" celebrations then.

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10-16-2020 , 09:39 AM

#12598

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 27,952

Let 3.10.20 be known as Bastard Day from this point on in the UK.

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10-16-2020 , 05:20 PM

#12599

nutella virus

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Teen wins 25k for developing potential covid treatment. Wtf have you done today?

https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/16/texas...-19-treatment/

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10-16-2020 , 06:17 PM

#12600

THAY3R

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Originally Posted by LektorAJ

Enjoy your "July Fourth" celebrations then.

We celebrate The Fourth of July on July 4th, deal with it.

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