Discussion about dates

Flatlander · 2011-11-09, 16:43

Please note that for us in the Eurozone it looks like you are having a month-long rally!

gd_barnes · 2011-11-09, 18:53

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Originally Posted by Flatlander

Please note that for us in the Eurozone it looks like you are having a month-long rally!

Oddball,

With one of our first few rallies at NPLB, we had the same date confusion. For that reason, we generally name the rally threads dates like "Nov. 11th thru 12th", "Oct. 31st thru Nov. 7th", etc.

Gary

Mini-Geek · 2011-11-10, 12:53

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Originally Posted by gd_barnes

Oddball,

With one of our first few rallies at NPLB, we had the same date confusion. For that reason, we generally name the rally threads dates like "Nov. 11th thru 12th", "Oct. 31st thru Nov. 7th", etc.

Gary

Be careful, programmers might get Oct. 31 and Dec. 25 confused with that naming scheme!

science_man_88 · 2011-11-10, 19:10

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Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

Be careful, programmers might get Oct. 31 and Dec. 25 confused with that naming scheme!

thought it was real programmer work in hexadecimal in which case I don't see the confusion lol

kar_bon · 2011-11-10, 22:59

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Originally Posted by science_man_88

thought it was real programmer work in hexadecimal in which case I don't see the confusion lol

Think of 31_oct = 25_dec or for 'programming historians': Halloween = Christmas Day.

science_man_88 · 2011-11-11, 01:47

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Originally Posted by kar_bon

Think of 31_oct = 25_dec or for 'programming historians': Halloween = Christmas Day.

I get that they equal but if you use anything else it solves that problem, at least in the english language.

Oddball · 2011-11-11, 07:07

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Originally Posted by Flatlander

Please note that for us in the Eurozone it looks like you are having a month-long rally!

This somehow reminds me of the U.S. Billion vs. the Euro Billion discussion way back a few years ago:

http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=5831

From:
http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpos...56&postcount=9

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Billion is a bit fuzzy: it is defined as 10e9 on short scale, while it is equal to 1e12 on long scale. That's why I prefer not to use this word.

gd_barnes · 2011-11-11, 08:09

I should say it is a bit fuzzy but it shouldn't be. Regardless of whether you are using the U.S. or Euro version, billion short scale is 1e9 not 10e9.

Flatlander · 2011-11-11, 13:42

It makes me laugh when Americans say, 'I just love your English accent.'
We don't have accents, everyone else does! We all speaks proper like what Her Maj does.
And I have confirmed with my 5" reflector that Crawley is indeed located almost exactly at the centre of the universe, what with Greenwich being just down the road and all.

Seriously, it surprises me that the dd/mm/yyyy v. mm/dd/yyyy issue still causes problems. I sometimes pause when I have to fill in an important form and have to assume they mean dd/mm/yyyy; wondering if the other way has reached our shores yet. We need a global standard. Or better forms.

Mini-Geek · 2011-11-11, 14:02

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Originally Posted by Flatlander

We need a global standard. Or better forms.

We have standards, they're just not widely used (depending on the context), so I'd say we need better forms.

kar_bon · 2011-11-11, 19:29

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Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

We have standards, they're just not widely used (depending on the context), so I'd say we need better forms.

Correct. After using "dd.mm.yyyy" (German-like) and "yyyy/mm/dd" I decided to use the ISO-norm with "yyyy-mm-dd" on my rieselprime-pages 3 years ago.

2011-11-09, 16:43	#1
Flatlander I quite division it "Chris" Feb 2005 England 31×67 Posts	Discussion about dates Please note that for us in the Eurozone it looks like you are having a month-long rally! Last fiddled with by Oddball on 2011-11-11 at 07:03

2011-11-11, 08:09	#8
gd_barnes May 2007 Kansas; USA 2³·13·103 Posts	I should say it is a bit fuzzy but it shouldn't be. Regardless of whether you are using the U.S. or Euro version, billion short scale is 1e9 not 10e9. Last fiddled with by gd_barnes on 2011-11-11 at 08:16

2011-11-11, 13:42	#9
Flatlander I quite division it "Chris" Feb 2005 England 31·67 Posts	It makes me laugh when Americans say, 'I just love your English accent.' We don't have accents, everyone else does! We all speaks proper like what Her Maj does. And I have confirmed with my 5" reflector that Crawley is indeed located almost exactly at the centre of the universe, what with Greenwich being just down the road and all. Seriously, it surprises me that the dd/mm/yyyy v. mm/dd/yyyy issue still causes problems. I sometimes pause when I have to fill in an important form and have to assume they mean dd/mm/yyyy; wondering if the other way has reached our shores yet. We need a global standard. Or better forms. Last fiddled with by Flatlander on 2011-11-11 at 13:43

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