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Inventing a new words (Germans) is quite alright - although they do adapt when convenient - but what they didn't do was to criminalize use of a foreign (read that English) word. That delight is found only in French speaking locals (Frogland, itself and Quebec).
As for who was first settled in Australia, see the second paragraph[^]. I love their national anthem (Waltzing Matilda) - unofficially. It shows a heart of not taking yourself too seriously. As for Vitamin C - it wasn't identified but was implicitly understood: Quote: The disease was shown to be prevented by citrus fruit in an early controlled trial by a Royal Navy surgeon, James Lind, in 1747, and from 1796 lemon juice was issued to all Royal Navy crewmen - hence the term "Limeys" for British sailors.
Interestingly, the Pilgrims, of whom many Americans are so proud and are featured in the Thanksgiving lore, were a bunch of lousy intolerant bastards. More or less calvinists, their version of christianity made them rather unpleasant (i.e., labeled sepratists in England) and they left d for . . . the Netherlands. From their, where calvanism was more tolerated they left for 'the new world" and brought their intolerance with them. The state of Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams, with the design to be religious tolerance, as he was driven out by the Pilgrims. Somewhat similarly, William Penn established Pennsylvania. In his case, he was a Quaker and the name was not his ego but demanded by the king who gave him the land for the state (as though it was his to give). It, too, was a place for religious freedom (note that this freedom often only extended to various versions of christianity). The point being, those Pilgrims left for religious freedoms which they denied to all others - perhaps the criminals to whom you refer !
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Inventing a new words (Germans) is quite alright - although they do adapt when convenient - but what they didn't do was to criminalize use of a foreign (read that English) word. That delight is found only in French speaking locals (Frogland, itself and Quebec). They don't criminalize, and need not to; The French are more cultures than French. And Germans hardly adapt. My favourite is "gabelstaplerfahrer". You need a "gabelstaplerfahrer führerschein" to do so.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: in 1747 By then the Dutch had their golden era. Think 1600'ds.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: The point being, those Pilgrims left for religious freedoms which they denied to all others - perhaps the criminals to whom you refer ! Mayhaps I the criminal, as I see most deads from being religious. And all those, would help their neighbour, regardless of religion, because they identify as a tribe.
The protestant and catholic Dutch hid their neighbour Jews (or acquintances), feeling a tribe during WW2.
People in small doses are benevolent, welcoming, sharing. Countries full of them are rules by idiot ideas of being superiour, or being attacked by "families", or having taking sh*t away. It's madness of masses, but no indidual holds those values if you meet them. I had Arab diners, but did not meet a jew here yet. Met Chinese. Met Scandinavians. Met a Dutch person living in the Carribean. Different in customs, yes, but not in wants.
We are being played; always have been. Ever since the Pax Romana.
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In military terms (my theme for the day), my advice for him would be: Suck it up!
Do they still say "RDAH"?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Worth noting on that subject is that the US military use the "dd mmm yyyy" format
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The answer is ALWAYS to compromise and keep everyone somewhat happy. Therefore, I propose dm\dm\yyyy.
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And MM/DD/YYYY doesn't sort lexically either.
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Dean Hawthorne 2021 wrote: And MM/DD/YYYY doesn't sort lexically either. I, for one, admitted that right off the top.
There's no advantage of mm/dd over dd/mm, or vis-versa, except for the obvious one: it should reflect the way people speak.
In science and business - yyyymmdd is the rational solution because sorting (for example) is needed without ridiculous accommodations (such as in code).
The key here is to realize writing, deep down inside, is a way to represent speech and transfer ideas. Smoothly. For the people with whom one is in contact with pretty much all the time. The smoother and more convenient it/they is/are for this purpose the better.
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I just use ISO 8601 UTC date/time for technical communication and in the cases the date/time should be stored as a string - when stored as a date (without time zone information), I store it as UTC.
For display, I just use the settings of the user - show it in his/her format and time zone.
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Yes! I even write ISO 8601 format on personal correspondence, check (yes, checks!), etc.
But I still have to deal with files at work that come in MM-dd-yy format - yes, using dashes "-" instead of slashes, and others that are dd-MM-yy, so it's ambiguous when read in context for various countries.
Hello all specification authors! Don't invent a new format! Just Don't! I've never seen anyone get confused reading ISO 8601 format
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I have spent far too much time "correcting" data from US sources. It is frustrating.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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I'll think about, but leaning towards OK. Maybe I should call rivers "River Mississippi" instead of Mississippi River as well. Just kidding ...
If it ain't broke don't fix it
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D/M/Y Surely?
Question: Why *do* Americans use M/D/Y? Totally wierd. Low to high (chronologically): D/M/Y.
Today is 07/04/2021
Either 4'th of July. Or 7'th of April.
Each to their own, though...
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Chris Maunder I understand your concern
But my question is why not harvest the IP address and make a decision
the date format that would be favorable for that location
YES VPN use will render this UI design less than desirable
Just a thought from a novice so please feel free to correct my thinking
or lack of experience
In my profession we used metric to compound pharmaceuticals
so I guess a lot depends on if your web site or product is
used or reviewed by multiple countries
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Choroid wrote: why not harvest the IP address and make a decision
It's not about location (which is unreliable to guess and unavailable in many instances). It's about culture. If I'm travelling in the US (in some distant Utopian future) that doesn't mean once I cross the border I suddenly understand that 4/7 means 7 Apr instead of 4 Jul.
Why not simply spell the date out. 4 Jul 2021 is not much longer than 7/4/2021.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Quote: spell the date out. 4 Jul 2021 I concur. For readability this is how it is best displayed. Internally, "20210704" makes more sense but should never be needed on the display - for example, column sorting can be done using the value not the text of the field.
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It's easy to make it unambiguous by simply using a 4 digit year, a 2 digit day, and a 3 letter month. In this way it is impossible to mix up one of the date values. For example: 04apr2021 is how a company I worked for used dates, you could also use: apr04,2021 or 2021apr04 or 2021/04apr or whatever you prefer.
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Would an amalgamation of Polygram Records, Warner Brothers, and Cracker Barrel Country Stores call themselves Poly-Warner-Cracker?
Would Apple, Amazon, and Twitter market the iAmatwit?
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CraPo-War
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Bravo, Maestro (+)
If MS gets involved in the cannabis business will they manufacture a Bing-Bong ?
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As in IoT-wired? That sounds like yet another useless IoT-connected device.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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and if Google and Campbell's merged, we'd get
Alphabet Soup
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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If pepsi and coca cola merged, they would be pepsi cola.
Wait a second...
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