time and date change ok, im getting really annoyed with the current system time and date on posts, anything posted before the 12th of any months i read backwards due to the american date format. and im sure that this happens to americans who browes a lot of britesh pages too. how about instead of getting into the big 'our way is better' argument based solely on nationalism rather than functionality, we just convert to the internation ISO format that is used in almost everything now days. i hereby propose that we convert all dates on this site to ISO format(YYYY-MM-DD) so as to eliminate confusion.
` Go bugger yourself. It is what it is. You're just looking for another reason to say something anti-American. `
I agree with vlsayer. Sure it is a minute detail but fuck man, this is Sciforums. A group of people who should be logical. And the ISO format is more logical than MM-DD-YY. At least in ISO you go from the highest values down to the lowest.. Years, months, days. Owned.
killjoy, this is not about me hating america, this is about the confusion it causes when im never sure of the date format. if the date is in ISO format then i can know the date with a single glance. there is no guessing at what format it is.
no, but the majority of sites i visit use either the british format or ISO format. so if all of the british and american formats were converted to ISO format it wolud eliminate oll confusion.
Why should you be suffering this alleged confusion ? You know which format is used here, so all you have to do is read it that way. I mean - I could understand you being confused if it was changed irregularly and without warning.... but it's steadfastly the same each and every time, all the time, plus without changing. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! So... are you bugging these Foggy Isle format users to "get with the program" ? Inquiring dips want to know... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
i know there is no 17th month, that is the only way in which i know which is day or month. however anything posted before the 12th causes a lot of confusion. i have never had to use american format date for anything except reading the date of this(and a few other) website. its like having to start writing everything in arabic format, when you have been writing left to right your whole life.
Technically, it is in Arabic format, as it is not written V/XXVIII/MMVI - or MMVI/V/XXVIII for that matter. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Actually, it is also 11:26 PM.. but might make more sense to say it is PM 11:26. Because it's a pariety that describes which side of the "axis" it is on, just like numbers.
day/month/year the date on sciforums should be individual for everyone. Thus the date on sciforums should be approximation of how many seconds,days,weeks,months,years a sciforums members has left being alive based on the birthday he/she supplied and the intelligent/idiotic responses that hint of understanding of life by this individual (and thus directly relate to how much time that individual will have to live)
i don't support either system therefor the date in question is 28 may 2006 as far as the time is concerned i also do not support either system the time in question would 26 past the hour greenwich mean time
I whole-heartedly support this. That is a stupid argument. Tell me the purpose of this subforum, and then just try to tell me this thread contradicts it. He overtly stated that he didn't want to go into a war about whose system was better. Furthermore, he proposed a system which is neutral and international. That is not anti-American. That, and start measuring temperature in centigrade. And I am doing my part to prepare for the day that we do the switch. You're relying on the mindset that a proposed change will have no greater benefit. This is an international forum. It's not just American, or just British, or just Namibian. Our time stamps should reflect that. It would make more sense to get rid of the AM-PM business and say it's 23:26, which is also ISO. You are missing the point of this thread, which is that we should start using a system which is neutral.
