:FI:Gurberly wrote:Does anybody know the real reason why certain countries do it mm/dd/yyyy rather than dd/mm/yyyy...
G
I have no idea,
but when someone walks up to me and asks,
"When is your birthday?"
I answer,
"May twenty-fifth, 1956."
So I was comfortable when I learned the colonial way to do it on paper...
May 25th, 1956 ...
05/25/56.
I understand that the US military uses DD/MM/YY,
but they ALWAYS want to sound different.
ANYWAY
if you want your serial number all scrambled up and 'Europeeny'
on my designs,
then ...
stop shooting me down!!!
gah!
but I understand that many cultures are quite different from others
I hear that some supposedly advanced societies ...
drive on the LEFT side of the road.
Imagine that?!
"He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed."
- The history of Paul Revere's
midnight ride, by Sarah Palin.