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Which date format do you use?

Eurodate (i.e. 27 March 2006)
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Ameridate (i.e. March 27, 2006)
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ISO 8601 (i.e. 2006-03-27)
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Joel Fagin wrote:Incidently, Americans also leave the skins on french fries, have larger life savers (the sweets), coloured Tic Tacs (instead of coloured boxes) and their Kelloggs cereals are entirely different even though they use the same names.

Weird stuff.

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I use Eurodate. It's easier to read.
grabmygoblin wrote:...if we are going to talk about romantic dating, then I just don't. haven't been on a date in years, and never with my perfered sex.
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I never actually dated. I was only 15 when I met Jim, and we went from being best friends to being a couple without any real dating involved.
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DATING IS FOR LOSERS!

I say let's have a couple of beers and go straight to the removal of the pants!
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I say "Bah" to you European mother fuckers.

American is far from random and nonsensical. If you look at the date 3 29, it reads much like the time, 11:56. Days tick into months like minutes tick into hours. When we throw in the year, we tack it on the back because we usually consider the date simply as month and year. It's March Twenty-Ninth, and oh yeah, it's the year of our lord Two Thousand Six. Putting the year first is absurd and inefficient on a day to day basis, as most of us know what year it is, and if we don't, we'll soon find out and then know for the rest of the year. The other thing about putting month first: It tells you more about where we are in yearly cycle. You see 3 as the first number, you think about the end of winter, the beginning of spring, cold grayness and small signs of life, drinking, kelly green, and Casmir Pulaski. You see 29 as the first number, you think of how it's late in this current month we're standing in. You don't have a feel of where you're standing in regards to the cycle of time in anyway. Ameridate gives you a more true sense of time. Eurodate gives you some numbers.

Of course, in reality, it's more about where you grew up and what you're used to. At least this is more interesting than arguing about pop and soda (and seltzer).
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Aah yes, I don't think I ever posted on topic here. I date the American way.
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Kat North wrote:Aah yes, I don't think I ever posted on topic here. I date the American way.
You date your cousins?
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Ian Moulding wrote:
Kat North wrote:Aah yes, I don't think I ever posted on topic here. I date the American way.
You date your cousins?
...just like british royalty
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Tellurider wrote:
Ian Moulding wrote:
Kat North wrote:Aah yes, I don't think I ever posted on topic here. I date the American way.
You date your cousins?
...just like british royalty
Judging by the ears and teeth, I'd guess the Royals have been dipping into a even shallower section of the genepool than that.
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I'm disappointed that this wasn't about dating people... in the romantic sense...

That said, I Ameridate.
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Ian Moulding wrote:
Kat North wrote:Aah yes, I don't think I ever posted on topic here. I date the American way.
You date your cousins?
We live in the Ozarks. Of course we date our cousins.
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Jim North wrote:
Ian Moulding wrote:
Kat North wrote:Aah yes, I don't think I ever posted on topic here. I date the American way.
You date your cousins?
We live in the Ozarks. Of course we date our cousins.
Hopefully not while your spouse is around...
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Ameridate usually...
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Black Sparrow wrote:
Jim North wrote:
Ian Moulding wrote: You date your cousins?
We live in the Ozarks. Of course we date our cousins.
Hopefully not while your spouse is around...
well seeing as their spouse is their cousin also...
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Ameridating makes the most sense to me.
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I Eurodate in writing, except if I write on formal documents, in which case you need to use numerals only and hence ISO.

I never ameridate. Not as far as I recall.
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Ian Moulding wrote:
grabmygoblin wrote:...if we are going to talk about romantic dating, then I just don't. haven't been on a date in years, and never with my perfered sex.
*Feels better about his complete lack of action recently. Then feels bad about feeling good about grabmygoblin's dateless status. Gets confused, hides under bed and weeps.*
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...yeah. I've lived a pretty sheltered life.

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It's like stealing candy from a baby... except it's a report card...
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:o

I . . .

I used to have that book.

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Because it's impossible for the kid to say 'I lost my report card Dad, but I did really well . . . call my teacher and she'll tell you!' or 'Teacher, I lost my report card! Can I have another copy or a note so I can show my Dad how good my grades are?'

Of course, kids never think of things like that.

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