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I've never understood why the US uses this odd order.
It's like giving a measurement as 2 feet, 4 inches and 3 yards! It makes no sense.
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StarNamer@work wrote: It's like giving a measurement as 2 feet, 4 inches and 3 yards! It makes no sense.
I'm still waiting to see a car with the odometer set up to read (from left to right) as hundreds of miles, then tens of miles, then miles, and then followed by hundreds of thousands of miles, tens of thousands of miles, and finally thousands of miles. Replace with kms if you wish.
You'd think on a site that is visited primarily by developers, who understand reading from most significant bit to least significant bit in progressive order - without bit significance flipping around in-between - would understand it makes much more sense to read/write dates in the same way. And it gets rid of all ambiguity.
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Not everything in the world must adhere to binary computer standards.
The difficult we do right away...
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It doesn't even have to adhere to order and logic.
Anyway: Order and logic, systematic presentation of information is not limited to digital computers.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I count date information as belonging to the language side of things, and we all know there's nothing logical or consistent about human languages.
As such, it is more a thing of the right side of the brain than the left. That's how I see it.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Correct, I was just using an example of something that obviously makes sense the way it is, without requiring much explanation.
I had two examples in fact.
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StarNamer@work wrote: why the US
Please don't paint us all with one brush.
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A one time swing.
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness".
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rather pleasing to the eye .
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Indeed, more symmetry than the norm.
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Nice, well supported, resting place by the lake. Just add a soft cushion and pillow, and can sleep for hours, enjoying the chirping of birds (of the feathered kind) around.
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It brought to mind the question about what chairs would look like if knees folded the other way.
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It looks like a bench designed for homeless people.
The difficult we do right away...
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I was thinking designed for cats.
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