sophie
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There are only 12 months in a year, dude.
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There are only 12 months in a year, dude.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
DD/MM/YYYY.
sophie
Break My Heart
that's not how dates work
jackelgull
An aberration of nature
They work that way in some parts of the world.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Some parts of the world, like Europe and most countries which aren't stupid.
sophie
Break My Heart
there is nothing outside of america
shadowplay
your ad here
Thatta boy, Tolni. You keep doing things the non-American way. 
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
at this point anything but DD/MM/YYYY is plain alien. why would you use MM/DD/YYYY like...why.
sophie
Break My Heart
Because my birthday is on July 19th
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JohannaK
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That's how it's written in the civilized world. 
Look, the ISO standard is
YY(YY)/MM/DD
USA simply takes the year and moves it to the back. Why do we do this? Because it is the least important unit of information. Everyone knows what year it is. Months tell crucial information such as season, proximity of holidays, etc. while days are useless entirely, being duplicated twelve times over every year. Knowing the specific day such as the 11th is absolutely, profoundly useless without the month.
Therefore, we end up with (unspoken YY)/MM/DD. Clearly the superior system.
YY(YY)/MM/DD
USA simply takes the year and moves it to the back. Why do we do this? Because it is the least important unit of information. Everyone knows what year it is. Months tell crucial information such as season, proximity of holidays, etc. while days are useless entirely, being duplicated twelve times over every year. Knowing the specific day such as the 11th is absolutely, profoundly useless without the month.
Therefore, we end up with (unspoken YY)/MM/DD. Clearly the superior system.
MagisterCultuum
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It was below freezing this morning, with a high temperature of only 38 degrees.
We did not have any heaters to use today at the Habitat for Humanity work site. Last week it was not quite that cold but we ran both an electric space heater and a propane heater most of the day. Today we could only rely on a couple incandescent lightbulbs for heat.
(Actually the group ordered catering from Willie's, a Mexican restaurant similar to chipotle, which means that starting at lunch we would also use those little things that were meant to keep the food warm. There was also enough food left over for me to take home and have for multiple meals.)
It was really colder than recommended for painting, but we went ahead and primed some stuff anyway.
I expected the drywall finishers to have done their job before we arrived, but instead they were working at the same time as us. The volunteers and pros kept getting in each other's way (and the finishers had to redo one wall that a volunteer bumped into while wet), so we got less done than we otherwise would have.
Some supplies did not arrive until the volunteers were almost ready to leave, so we have more work for this Saturday than expected. We may not even get around to painting until the following week.
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I came home to find that something had gone terribly wrong with our septic tank. There is nowhere on our property one can go to escape its horrible stench.
Our neighbor, who is a handy man, had just poured some highly acidic treatment into the tank moments before I arrived, which made it smell even worse.
I don't think we're allowed to use our water until the situation has been rectified, so I can't take a shower to wash off and warm up.
We did not have any heaters to use today at the Habitat for Humanity work site. Last week it was not quite that cold but we ran both an electric space heater and a propane heater most of the day. Today we could only rely on a couple incandescent lightbulbs for heat.
(Actually the group ordered catering from Willie's, a Mexican restaurant similar to chipotle, which means that starting at lunch we would also use those little things that were meant to keep the food warm. There was also enough food left over for me to take home and have for multiple meals.)
It was really colder than recommended for painting, but we went ahead and primed some stuff anyway.
I expected the drywall finishers to have done their job before we arrived, but instead they were working at the same time as us. The volunteers and pros kept getting in each other's way (and the finishers had to redo one wall that a volunteer bumped into while wet), so we got less done than we otherwise would have.
Some supplies did not arrive until the volunteers were almost ready to leave, so we have more work for this Saturday than expected. We may not even get around to painting until the following week.
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I came home to find that something had gone terribly wrong with our septic tank. There is nowhere on our property one can go to escape its horrible stench.
Our neighbor, who is a handy man, had just poured some highly acidic treatment into the tank moments before I arrived, which made it smell even worse.
I don't think we're allowed to use our water until the situation has been rectified, so I can't take a shower to wash off and warm up.
Only northerners should experience cold temps, cause they have animal hides to cover with and stuff and stay home brooding in the dark and misery
You silly soft Southerner.
Is that why your avatar is gone?
Is there, now? I thought 'Murica had grown a beard and wore a hat.
Sadly, the rebellion in the colonies hasn't been put down and for the past 240 years they've been doing strange things.Thats how its is written in the UK.
You know, CFC lists your post as having been made on 18-01-2016
Not on my screen. On my screen it is listed as Jan 18, 2016.
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