>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Unless Belize or Kenya changed recently, they too use mm/dd/yyyy. Also Puerto Rico, Phillipines, (I think all territories, common wealths, and possessions do, but not sure).
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Some places in Canada used to use mm/dd/yyyy. I saw it myself on numerous occasions visiting Canada. I guess that changed across Canada during the last few years though.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>It depends entirely on what you were looking at. In the programs we do here, I normally use mm/dd/yyyy because it seems to be creeping into the culture more (of course, I make it clear - ie - Date (mm/dd/yyyy):, but governments, official bodies etc still use dd/mm/yyyy. Officially, Canada is dd/mm/yyyy.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I think the world should definitely go yyyy/mm/dd which we all know is the only sensible way to do it.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>In what way is it "the only sensible way to do it."?
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>We think in terms of the days passing, within the months (passing) within years
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Steps within steps - seems most logical to me.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>If you're referring to the date format being used in maths functions then maybe y/m/d is more sensible, but the average Joe isn't using the format for that.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>It also makes more sense for sorting information. Also, I believe that most things should be referred to in terms from largest container to smallest.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>So if I ask you when you where born would you tell me year then month then day ?
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>>>>>>>>>>>Probably not, but only because that's the way we're conditioned. Ok, I hand you a pile of calendars. Do you open each one up and check the day, then discover that it's the wrong month, so you check the month, and then discovering it's the wrong year, go on to the second calendar in the pile and repeat the process? Or do you go to the proper year, open it to the proper month, and then to the day?
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>>>>>>>>>>>Which way makes more sense.
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>>>>>>>>>>Well I'd rather computers made my life more easy not me make theirs more easy.
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>>>>>>>>>But even computers are more efficient if fed the year first, then the month and then the day. Ultimately it's the most efficient way for the computer to look up a date.
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>>>>>>>>Yes but. I don't actually want to alter what I and most people do to help save a few nano seconds of processing time.
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>>>>>>>>It would really help speech recognition software if I spoke like Steven Hawking but I'm not going to do that either.
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>>>>>>>Would you rather your monetary system had stayed the way it was - 240 pence to the pound instead of 100? I know I'm much happier with the decimal system than I was with the old imperial system. Sometimes it doesn't hurt to change to a better system.
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>>>>>>yes I would . There was no real need for currency reform. I think people got a better grasp of maths when they had to deal with calculations that involved different types of number. And also it got rid of a large slice of our cultural heritage.
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>>>>>Are you sure you're not American? When they put up highway signs in decimal notation, people used them for target practice. Maybe you should switch to the imperial system of measurements. Your math abilities will pick up by magnitudes. ;)
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>>>>People have been prosecuted here for using imperial measurements. Usually a market trader still selling fruit and veg in ounces pounds and stones. For some reason decimilisation never reached distances. Its still miles and miles per hour. So I'm supposed to figure out how many miles my car does to the litre. But car reviews always give miles per gallon except you can't buy gallons. If you could older people would suddenly realise how expensive petrol is and probably give up driving.
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>>>I read once years ago that the cost of converting all out road signs would be prohibitive. Even more so is the reason why we still drive on the left, because of changing all the signs, and that certain roads, such as motorway slip roads (freeway on- and off-ramps for you continentals) would have a dangerous reverse camber.
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>>About the only place I ever see the old pounds and ounces is in the supermarket or the butcher where they often show prices in both systems. I never see temperature in Fahrenheit any more. There was some muttering etc when we changed over, but overall, I think it went pretty smoothly, and I for one am glad we changed - I mean who cares if there are 320 rods in a mile and 5.5 yards in a rod any more? I'm glad to be shut of it all. I definitely keep my bathroom scale set to kilograms. ;)
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>Whoever dealt in rods - no one I've ever known.

Gee, you were lucky. When we were kids, we were forced to go to school.

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>Now human heights and weights are summat we anglos only really understand in imperial. You do the kilos so you don't know how many pounds you've put on! :-)

I was under the impression that was the whole point of moving to kilos. Well, that and raising the price of milk without anybody being the wiser.

Besides, I thought you guys all dealt in stone and hands. How many hands in a rod?