American Dates

[liverpoolkid2]

I have been on this site since april 2011 just noticed ( slow learners us Woolybacks) that when you post it comes up with the american date ie 11-22-2011, when I went to school it was 22-11-2011 and also when we wrote the # 7 it was a 7 but then after school ppl wrote 7 with a line though it anybody else noticed anythink like that since leaving school ( can you remeber that far back heheheh)????:handclap::rolleyes:

[Oudeis]

On the date thing, I think the US and the rest of us will just have to agree to disagree. I draw a line through my 7s and my Zs...the 'continental' way, don't you know. Just to make them more intelligible as I scribble quite quickly.
The hardest 'new' thing I have come across along these lines is the back-to-front way London/England does it's long division. ;)

[ChrisGeorge]

While it's true that over here in the United States we usually date things as month, day, year, and Brits often do it instead as day, month, year, I have noticed that it isn't done consistently that way in the UK.

Chris

[Prefrab]

While it's true that over here in the United States we usually date things as month, day, year, and Brits often do it instead as day, month, year, I have noticed that it isn't done consistently that way in the UK.

Chris

You are so right Chris, and it's a pain, a lot of the problem here is users having Computers set to English (us) rather than English (uk) which shows up even more when using spellchecker.
and going back to an old thread..The so called US spelling is of course mostly the original English way until the French influenced the language in the 17/18th centuries. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[az_gila]

On the date thing, I think the US and the rest of us will just have to agree to disagree. I draw a line through my 7s and my Zs...the 'continental' way, don't you know. Just to make them more intelligible as I scribble quite quickly.
..... ;)

I always though the lines through the 7 and Z was the "continental" way as you say.

I have also seen another variant, that of a diagonal line through the number 0 to distinguish it from the letter O. I think that is a good idea when numbers and letters are mixed, like in passwords...:)

[liverpoolkid2]

While it's true that over here in the United States we usually date things as month, day, year, and Brits often do it instead as day, month, year, I have noticed that it isn't done consistently that way in the UK.

Chris
it was when I went to school Chris otherwise if I didn't 6 of the best

[az_gila]

If it's really, really important I use the format 23 Nov. 2011 and then no-one should be able to be confused...:)

[ChrisGeorge]

You are so right Chris, and it's a pain, a lot of the problem here is users having Computers set to English (us) rather than English (uk) which shows up even more when using spellchecker.
and going back to an old thread..The so called US spelling is of course mostly the original English way until the French influenced the language in the 17/18th centuries. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Thanks, Prefab. It's also annoying to me as a historian not knowing if, for example, 1/5/11 is 1 May 2011 or January 5 2011 -- so the different dating style can be quite confusing and misleading.

Incidentally, I have had DATES in England and America, and I have found them equally good. Know what I mean? :unibrow:

All the best

Chris

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If it's really, really important I use the format 23 Nov. 2011 and then no-one should be able to be confused...:)

You can use that today, AZ, but what will you use tomorrow? lol

Cheers, mate!

Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[Prefrab]

Chris, as an historian I think it is a duty of yours to record for future reference the details of those "Dates" on Yo liverpool purely for historical purposes:handclap:

[az_gila]

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You can use that today, AZ, but what will you use tomorrow? lol

Cheers, mate!

Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

The same....:PDT11


I also notice that my geneaology software uses this same format so as to be consistent (i.e., non-confusing) to all users, now and for future generations....:)

[Norm NZ]

The 'line' through the 'number 0' is in common use in military message writing, and is refered to as 'zero' to differentiate from the letter O.:PDT_Xtremez_42:

[liverpoolkid2]

The 'line' through the 'number 0' is in common use in military message writing, and is refered to as 'zero' to differentiate from the letter O.:PDT_Xtremez_42:
Yhanks fotr that Norm
:handclap:

[az_gila]

The 'line' through the 'number 0' is in common use in military message writing, and is refered to as 'zero' to differentiate from the letter O.:PDT_Xtremez_42:

I've seen it in scientific stuff and early computer stuff, and then I remembered where.

It goes back at least to the early 1945 Teletype machine (think very original PC printers...:)...) font...

http://www.dafont.com/teletype-1945-1985.font

[mickeydoolan]

Before I retired I was reading two technical drawings by the same draughtsman, an American. He had written the date both ways, confusing.:handclap:

[Prefrab]

It the same with the 24 hour clock, I use the 24 hr clock system at home and in work so if I see 9.00 in a letter or on a notice without an am /pm rather than 09.00 or 21.00 it sets up a doubt!! :rolleyes:

[Samsette]

It the same with the 24 hour clock, I use the 24 hr clock system at home and in work so if I see 9.00 in a letter or on a notice without an am /pm rather than 09.00 or 21.00 it sets up a doubt!! :rolleyes:

Exactly, and that is why there are two ways to express time - the army way and the wrong way.:PDT_Xtremez_42::PDT_Xtremez_12:

[az_gila]

Before I retired I was reading two technical drawings by the same draughtsman, an American. He had written the date both ways, confusing.:handclap:

It takes a while to switch formats...:)

In a similar vein, my first job in the US was with Bendix Aerospace working on the Apollo project. A British mechanical engineer hired a few years me before reverted to his early training and actually designed in a Whitworth bolt into the equipment that was to be left behind on the moon.

Needless to say these didn't exist in the NASA approved parts bin, and it was too complicated to change the drawing once it was released. The solution was to make a new NASA approved drawing to create the correct Whitworth bolt from solid stock...:PDT_Aliboronz_24:


Old habits can die hard....:002:

[Prefrab]

It takes a while to switch formats...:)


Needless to say these didn't exist in the NASA approved parts bin, and it was too complicated to change the drawing once it was released. The solution was to make a new NASA approved drawing to create the correct Whitworth bolt from solid stock...:PDT_Aliboronz_24:


Old habits can die hard....:002:

NASA should have phoned Screw Fix before 18.00 they would have delivered the next daylol

[az_gila]

NASA should have phoned Screw Fix before 18.00 they would have delivered the next daylol

Would that come with the space certified traceability....:002:

It was quite amazing what parts went through in the 70's to be good enough for NASA. The timer for the lunar electronics was Bulova watch tuning fork electroncs - completely taken apart and certified....:rolleyes:

Another engineer friend misspelt ASAP on a purchase order. Six small resistors crossed the country with Armed Surveillance....:PDT_Xtremez_42:

[Prefrab]

Would that come with the space certified traceability....:002:

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No but you get free postage and a catalogue to read on the loo or should I say john :handclap: