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Follow the link - what's the tagline?
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Nothing to do with the movie, just the title. Your answer was blindingly fast!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Ah. I assumed the Tagline: "You may be next"
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I guess the tagline was just blind luck!
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Very good!
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Yep
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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standardizing the date formats and just keep it as one. The shorter, longer, the too longer all these differences are fine. I'm just talking about the completely opposite types like
MM-DD-YY
DD-MM-YY
YY-MM-DD
This is seriously freaking tiring to handle. All the data sheet exported from system are in MM-DD-YY format, and the customer read them all as DD-MM-YY & feeds into their own internal system.
Yeah I head you saying "This is what localization is supposed to fix". But why? why not we fix this in peoples minds and make them follow a unified type.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Because the 'mercans cannot handle the correct date (or time) formats.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Because the 'mercans cannot handle... Careful now. Most of the things they can't handle are the side effects of having been British colonies. Centuries of independence have not even helped very much. The only thing they were spared was not having to drive on the weirder side of the road.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Careful - the euro-standard is just uniformly ass-backwards.
D-M-Y (any number of digits you prefer) sorts totally wrong.
Period.
YYYYMMDD is the only rational format as it can be sorted as is, even as text - but can be stored/sorted as an int. (I leave off proper date objects as they'd sort regardless).
Just the usual Eurogance (the now and forever word for European arrogance).
Time you just get over yourselves. Get some laxatives - clear your thoughts.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Careful - the euro-standard is just uniformly ass-backwards.
The Euro-standard sorts perfectly - if you write from right to left.
You guys just need to learn Hebrew!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Nachon - hakol b'seder.
Or is that:
.redes'b lokah - nohcaN
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I agree the Europeans are arrogant, but us British?
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OK OK OK.
Having seen enough Midsomer Murders (&etc.), I can safely say 'pompous', rather than arrogant, would be the description.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Midsomer Murders There may even be somewhere in England where people really behave like that. Apart from the murdering perhaps.
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From what I hear of the behavior (behaviour, to them) English school boys, it would be amazing if there were only three-per-show equivalent in the countryside. Or at the least, they'd pluck the limbs off the torsos.
Famous, that lot.
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I guess you have not travelled very much. I have travelled, worked, and lived in most European countries, the Middle East and North America, and am also slightly older than you.
My original comment was meant as a joke, hence the smiley. but seriously, I have found that my experience of life has taught me never to judge a nation on the evidence of one or two individuals, whether good or bad.
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I guess you have only met a few actual British people, and have judged an entire nation on those few meetings. I could make exactly the same claim against Americans from one or two I have met. However, I have also met some extremely nice Americans, and Germans, French, Norwegians, Turks, Kuwaitis, South Africans etc.
With apologies to all the other countries I have visited but not mentioned.
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My final comment, with apology.
CodeProject/Internet playing up, hence the double replies.
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Sorry to disappoint you. I have travelled widely, all over the world. My wife is an "Anglophile" of the first order and magnitude. I have met "Brits" in London, Bermuda, and Hong Kong and the United States. I brought in New Year 1970 getting drunk in Hong Kong with British soldiers (and yes they drank me under the table, and out the door). They were the exceptions to the rule which I mentioned earlier.
While my comments were partially "Tongue in cheek" and meant to get a rise out of you, which they apparently did, (did I mention I am 1/2 Irish? ), I assure you there is a very large nugget of truth in them. And I stand firmly by my earlier comments.
The fact that you replied by lecturing me about judging a nationality based on an assumption that I had not met many British people, just tends to prove my remarks about arrogance and pomposity.
I am sure we could become great friends, given the chance. I sincerely apologize for any hurt feelings I may have caused you. Why, I have had Scotties and Westies as pets for 40 years, or so!
BTW: I openly admit to being quite arrogant and pompous myself. In fact I am rather proud of it. In any event, Us old guys (Are you really older than me? I thought I was the only one still working in the business at my age) should stick together, not argue. There IS still that Irish, English thing, I guess....
Well Toodles for now.....
It's a random chance universe and we are all just riding waves of probability...
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I certainly don't recognize what you are referring to, arguing in favor of yyyymmdd sort of as opposed to some "Eurogance". ISO 8601 has been adopted in Europe to a much higher degree than in the US, many years ago.
Obviously, thirty years ago (when ISO 8601 was first published) there were other ways of writing dates. Some schemes were integrated in formal systems, such as the Norwegian "fødseslsnummer" (birth number, a rough equivalent to the social security number in the USA) where the person's ddmmyy birth date make up 6 of the 11 digits. When ISO 8601 was introduced, this 20+ year old scheme was not changed, and still remains. But for the great majority of new schemes established after 1988, the yyyy-mm-dd (with the hyphens, according to the international standard) format is used. Obviously, ISO 8601 was not out of the blue, either: The 8601 format was well known even before 1988.
In informal contexts and particularly orally, other schemes (such as "thirteenth of June") is still in use. In formal contexts, ISO 8601 has a very strong position (unless old conventions must be followed, such as the fødselsnummer).
Note that when Europeans do 8601, they do 8601: With the hyphens. Not as an 8-digit string. Not with slashes, but according to the international standard.
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