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Just to be different, just like the rest of the measuring systems that are in place. 
Perfection
The Great Head.
It's because we are too busy beating the living crap out of smaller nations to be bothered with such trivial manners; it works for us and that's all we care!
Plexus
Architeuthidae puericomedentis
We refuse to conform to your Euro-centric standards!
SeleucusNicator
Diadoch
I say "July Twenty-First" when refering to the date in speech. Therefore, when I write it, I will write "July 21" and when I abbreviate it I write "7/21/04".
CenturionV
Warrior Forever
you might find this interesting, http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/books/12/02/alder.measure/
Plexus
Architeuthidae puericomedentis
That was a nice read, Centurion. 
For your information, the meter is indeed an abritrary value. But that's not the point.
The point is to have a decimal system, with international units system.
I don't know how you teach science in the US, but here we are using meters for length, meter per second for speed, etc.
The point is to have a decimal system, with international units system.
I don't know how you teach science in the US, but here we are using meters for length, meter per second for speed, etc.
Plexus
Architeuthidae puericomedentis
Science is taught much the same way here with very few exceptions. As opposed to daily life, where the mile, degree Fahrenheit, gallon and pound rule.
When I write a date out, such as on a check, I'll use the Military style. 21 July 2004. I prefer to use my dates as 20040721, which just makes more sense to me. I don't like seeing dates like 21/7/04, it tends to confuse me as I grew up with 7/21/04. It's not so bad now, but on 1/8/04, I tend to see that as January 8, 2004 instead of August 1, 2004.
I thought a meter was the distance light travels in 1/300,000,000th of a second...
Edit: it would be nice if there was a worldwide standard. Sigh...
I thought a meter was the distance light travels in 1/300,000,000th of a second...
Edit: it would be nice if there was a worldwide standard. Sigh...
Perfection
The Great Head.
Definition: The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second. (1983)
Ans since that uses the second...
Definition: The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom. This definition refers to a caesium atom in its ground state at a temperature of 0 K. (1968)
Ans since that uses the second...
Definition: The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom. This definition refers to a caesium atom in its ground state at a temperature of 0 K. (1968)
Plexus
Architeuthidae puericomedentis
A kilogram is a cubic third of a meter of water.
Mise
isle of lucy
The only advantage of Imperial measures is that you can divide measures into thirds and quarters more easily. They have their uses, like at the grocers, or ... yeah, but for anything else, it's completely pointless to have Imperial units.
As for mm-dd-yy, I think it's quite illogical to have it that way, since a day is smaller than a month, and a month is smaller than a year, so having it dd-mm-yy is much more consistent.
As for mm-dd-yy, I think it's quite illogical to have it that way, since a day is smaller than a month, and a month is smaller than a year, so having it dd-mm-yy is much more consistent.
Mise said:
I'm using yy-mm-dd at work, and dd-mm-yy in everyday life
Mise
isle of lucy
Which makes sense, because it's consistent. If you had the years or days in the middle, that would be silly. As long as months are in the middle, it makes sense.Steph said:
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