Mm-dd-yy

[Marla_Singer]

Having a ten-day week (and thus nine workdays for every day off) may have had something to do with that. As may the fact that more people are convinced of the holiness of Sundays than of inches.

Actually, the idea could be more about 7 days of work and 3 days off. However, 7 days is already rather long...

If it has failed miserably, it's mostly because of religion. It's quite hard to enforce a calendar with no sunday in a country where 90% of people are practicing catholics.

The revolutionary calendar is very naive and folkloric. Very amusing. Instead of celebrating Saints each day, it is celebrating fruits, animals and vegetables.

It was based on the idea to be closer to the people, so it was mainly based on the agricultural world... which was the environment of the massive majority of people in those days.

 

[cgannon64]

Wow Marla, that sounds like it outs of a mediocre Christian dystopian novel...

 

[SeleucusNicator]

I'll admit, though, that I use mm-dd-yy only for Gregorian dates -- when talking about my own Calendar, I use dd/mm/yy.

So, for instance, today is 2/F/17 -- the second day of the week of festivals of the seventeenth year.

 

[Silverflame]

It still amazes me to see people who always think their way is the right way. At least we know which side of the road to drive on...

No way, driving on the left is so much cooler. All the best countries drive on the left, Britain, Japan, Singapore, Cayman Islands... yeah. Driving on the right like we do in the US is BORING.

But I hate the metric system. I only use it for science and stuff. I use the mm/dd/yyyy system because "July twenty-first" is easier to say than "twenty-first of July" because the latter has an extra "of" in there! Laziness prevails yet again!

 

[Azadre]

The MM-DD-YYYY should be fixed if we are to no longer remain the laughing stock of the rest of the world. In regards to the Metric system, all my sciences use the metric system so I am ready to adapt when my fellow Americans (class mates) stop being so ******** and adopt a more logical system.

 

[bobgote]

What's really annoying is the way you guys write decimals. Seeing something like 7,2 always makes me stop for a second when reading.

that's european convention, not metric. we use metric, but say 7.2 rather than 7,2

 

[ferenginar]

RoddyVR

ampres can probably be defined some better way then what feringinar has up there. as some sort of meter/second per liter per gram or something like that. dont know enough about electricity to say for sure.


It is not my opinion, just the official definition, and as such could probably be defined some better way, but it isn't.

 

[Masquerouge]

Does anybody remember the martian probe that crashed because part of the program was in meters, and part of the program in miles ?

That's just so great.

I was once an exchange student in the US. In High School. I took a chemistry class, and one of the first test was to evaluate roughly the length of objects in centimeters and meters, the point being the metric system is used by the scientific community world-wide, because it's simpler for the calcutations.
Now I remember getting up to the teacher, silently so as not to disturb the others, and asking him how many yards were there in a mile.
...
I had to make him say it three times. I couldn't believe it. No need to tell you I don't remember it now ; is it 1,822 ?

Next question was about gallons and cubic inches. I laughed.

Now I understand it would be very difficult to change such a tradition, but the metric system is coherent and user-friendly