ironhorse
Enlightened
Don't get me started on having to use celcius at work.
Why do Americans put the date the wrong way around?
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Nice warm day here, expecting 26
Norm
Hey it was 26 here too! But it was a cold 26.... :nana:
smokinbasser
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It's just because you are on the opposite side of the globe it looks bassackwards.
Lou Minescence
Flashlight Enthusiast
I'm using tapatalk on a mobile phone in the US and the dates of the posts are in the American formats. Is the date displayed the US way for CPF members outside the US ?
Reading around the internet there really is no explanation why Americans record the date the way we do. We can probably blame it on England somewhere in history.
My explanation is my school teacher made me do it.
Reading around the internet there really is no explanation why Americans record the date the way we do. We can probably blame it on England somewhere in history.
My explanation is my school teacher made me do it.
Jay R
Flashlight Enthusiast
OK, but who came second ?
Jay R
Flashlight Enthusiast
Now if only the Germans wrote their numbers the correct way. I work in a company that sent a bill out to a German client for € 780,500. They paid us € 780.50 because they use commas for full stops and stops to designate thousands. ( I guess they ignored the extra zero on the end. ) I had to ask them for the remaing € 779,719.50. Perhaps they thought they got a bargain ?
Oh,and we don't use imperial here much in the U.K. any more. About the only thing we still use is miles and pints. We buy 'gas' by the litre and I didn't dig out my imperial socket set for years....
Eric242
Flashlight Enthusiast
G´day youself
Well, I don´t think that´s a matter of commas or dots but rather a certain amount of dumbness involved
Or they thought it was worth the try....heheEric
Capolini
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Like I said, Germans are very smart!! He used that money to but a lot of good German Beer and Plenty of BMW's and Mercedes!! lol!
Capolini
Banned
Wow!! That is hotttttttttt! That is 105.8F!! That would make me frown to!We got to 41°C yesterday
We had a top of 48 or 49 during bushfires a couple of years ago, that's about 120F :devil:
Norm
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Capolini
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They get that kind of weather in Texas, Arizona, Calif. desert and a few other places. I much prefer weather like this:!
Vostok, Antarctica Weather Forecast from Weather Underground
Forgot something! They have the world record "LOW" temp. at -89C/-128F!!
It is summer there now!
Annual Temp. range b/w -30F[-34C] and -65F[-53C]!
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Today is 20Dec2013. That is how it should be written so that the month and day are immediately identified.
It's confusing if the month is only written numerically.
I got grief throughout my schooling years; however, I never waffled from that practice.
Even had points deducted from several term papers because I refused to comply with whatever the convention happened to be at the time. I argued with administration by simply asking if my method was wrong. I never got an answer. Points were returned to me eventually. ,'~D
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It's confusing if the month is only written numerically.
I got grief throughout my schooling years; however, I never waffled from that practice.
Even had points deducted from several term papers because I refused to comply with whatever the convention happened to be at the time. I argued with administration by simply asking if my method was wrong. I never got an answer. Points were returned to me eventually. ,'~D
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What makes it worse is that in the same year we got to -10°C overnight in winter...
dc38
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Nice new avatar.
I get so confused when people change their avatars. :sigh: Do other people identify me by my avatar like I do them? Many regular posters I just know right away by their pic and I don't need to look at the handle..
