View Poll Results: Which dates should the world use, as a standard?
dd-mm-yy 30 52.63%
mm-dd-yy 7 12.28%
yy-mm-dd 10 17.54%
yy-dd-mm 2 3.51%
Some not mentioned above... 0 0%
Each country should use whatever they prefer to use... 3 5.26%
Who cares? 1 1.75%
bb-aa-nn-aa-nn-aa 4 7.02%
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Old May 18, 2003, 22:00   #61
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Nah. Everybody should switch to sidereal banana time. Think of the sales of new electronic appliances! Goodbye world recession. You know it makes sense.
Thankfully due to my having a friend who is into astrology I no longer think that sidereal is some sort of film analog to the single sideband radio.
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Old May 19, 2003, 05:15   #62
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Of course both the dutch and german speaking countries are somewhat of an exception when it comen to numbers anyway, I think we are the only ones who pronounce them in reverse.
87 --> seven-and-eighty instead of eighty-seven
Yeah , even I get sometimes confused by this now
In DK it's the same...
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