Neverside

Originally posted by patrick:

probably because some guy back in the 1770s said - lets not be like England! So we took out the u's in a bunch of our words, reformated our dates, became stupid, ect...

Haha, probably.

Yeah, the dropping of the U is weird.
Another good one is how they just replace an S with a Z.

Zilly nited Ztatez

___________________

Originally posted by LadyFirelyght:

I'll be honest, I consider myself to be bi-sexual.

Use the arabic datetime format

year / month / day / hour / minute / second

Its the only good format there is.

___________________

There probably isn't any meaning in life. Perhaps you can find something interesting to do while you are alive. Like how you found that flower. Like how i found you.

I use YYYY-MM-DD. People look at me strangely. :(

___________________

Sykil | | UT or die

I think because we like to be difficult is exactly right. I mean why else do you think we haven't transitioned over to the Metric System yet. It's because before we did something like that, the rest of the world would give up and transition over to our system... at which time we would decide that the metric system is a much better system and move over there

What can I say, we are a complete and utter pain in the ***.

___________________

Neversidian Editor

I wish we would just convert over to metric's (so much easyer). With the date thing, meh its fun being differen't

___________________

People without self-doubt scare me.
The world is my country, science is my religion. - Christiaan Huygens
“Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus.”

Home||Truth|Love

We're just a pain in the ***. There is no sense, especially today, when the internet is so widely used, just to be "different". There is no sense behind it. We should just use the more logical way of day / month / year. We also should use the metric system. We're just stubborn human beings, I guess.

Originally posted by Toast:

We're just a pain in the ***. There is no sense, especially today, when the internet is so widely used, just to be "different". There is no sense behind it. We should just use the more logical way of day / month / year. We also should use the metric system. We're just stubborn human beings, I guess.

More logical would be arabic datetime format when you want to enter stuff into a database

year / month / day / hour / minute / second

When you display it to the screen it seems more logical to put it as day / month / year

___________________

There probably isn't any meaning in life. Perhaps you can find something interesting to do while you are alive. Like how you found that flower. Like how i found you.

I think it has more to do with how we say a date when we are talking. Like today is March 21st 2005. So we just write the date the same way we say it.

___________________

Hello. I am Joe Shoop's Portfolio

That's probably the most practical reason. Where's that ::classic:: smiley..

___________________