Isn’t d/m/y standard configuration? :008j:
The month-day-year date format (e.g., February 17, 2015) is officially adopted by the USA only (although contamination of this format can be found in a few other countries). Like most standards adopted in the USA, the month-day-year date format is bizarre at best, as shown in the following illustration:
Ah ha ! It was one of those Tests ! Well given you seem to have the date/month/year while some of us go month/date/year
Must be a Canuck thing
Officially Canada uses Metric system, on practice it is 50/50 Metric/Imperial, depends on a business and suppliers, worst part is that rarely people able to translate from one to another and when 2 of them meat to do business, it is a nightmare for engineers/technicians.
I see, the average IQ have not risen yet in young padavans, the process of looking at the date ON the screen shot is still to hard… :00555:
With the mobile phone version of the forum I couldn’t zoom in the pictures and didn’t look at anything but at my old profile picture
Just on the Imperial measurement side; while I’m not familiar with feet and yards, I am very familiar with some of the other measurement types. Generally speaking, Imperial measurements are designed to allow easy division.
Take the old Imperial Pound. One pound was twenty shillings, or two hundred and forty pence. That’s easy for mental math!
Half a pound? 120 pence.
Third of a pound? 80 pence.
Quarter? 60.
Sixth? 40.
Eighth? 30.
Tenth? 24
Twentieth? 12.
Try that with modern money. What’s a third of a modern Pound? Or a third of a Dollar? 33.3 pence. Err… how exactly do you give someone a third of a pence? You can do half, quarter or tenth, but not much else.
The old measurements were also done by weight. My grandfather told me that in the old days you could use pennies to accurately weigh goods. I don’t recall the ratios and sadly he’s not around to ask, but there was clear logic there.
There’s probably a similar rule for yards and such, but I don’t know what it is. There’s definitely one for volumes though - had a chart of them somewhere.
The month-day-year date format (e.g., February 17, 2015) is officially adopted by the USA only (although contamination of this format can be found in a few other countries). Like most standards adopted in the USA, the month-day-year date format is bizarre at best, as shown in the following illustration:
My little country right in the middle of Europe just uses year/month/day because “f@ck the system”. 
My little country right in the middle of Europe just uses year/month/day because “f@ck the system”.
Your little hungry country?!
Officially Canada uses Metric system, on practice it is 50/50 Metric/Imperial, depends on a business and suppliers, worst part is that rarely people able to translate from one to another and when 2 of them meat to do business, it is a nightmare for engineers/technicians.
I vote that all countries switch over to Metric. It will make everyone’s lives easier.
Just on the Imperial measurement side; while I’m not familiar with feet and yards, I am very familiar with some of the other measurement types. Generally speaking, Imperial measurements are designed to allow easy division.
Take the old Imperial Pound. One pound was twenty shillings, or two hundred and forty pence. That’s easy for mental math!
Half a pound? 120 pence.
Third of a pound? 80 pence.
Quarter? 60.
Sixth? 40.
Eighth? 30.
Tenth? 24
Twentieth? 12.
Try that with modern money. What’s a third of a modern Pound? Or a third of a Dollar? 33.3 pence. Err… how exactly do you give someone a third of a pence? You can do half, quarter or tenth, but not much else.
The old measurements were also done by weight. My grandfather told me that in the old days you could use pennies to accurately weigh goods. I don’t recall the ratios and sadly he’s not around to ask, but there was clear logic there.
There’s probably a similar rule for yards and such, but I don’t know what it is. There’s definitely one for volumes though - had a chart of them somewhere.
Half are two of the previous, and the other half are practically random. Apparently a pint of water is approximately one pound.
3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon
2 tablespoons = 1 fl oz
8 fl oz = 1 cup
2 cups = 1 pint
2 pints = 1 quart
4 quarts = 1 gallon
Anyways, yes, imperial system is good for dividing by lots of different numbers. However, metric, decimal based things make more sense in the age of digital stuff, where you almost always have a calculator of some sort on you. Plus, no one has to memorize unit conversions.
You can take your re-tarded roller coaster and shove it.
As American’s we are really busy not being EU.
So we do things like have accept a Russian temperature system based off of the freezing point of frikkin brine, and the temperature of a person. If you hadn’t noticed both of those are variable. To the point that F100 is off by over one percent! What Russia isn’t EU.
Just to prove how smart we are, we are going to create our own needlessly complex measurement systems! Then collectively has a nation we are going to forget how they break down.
BTW those measurement systems are going to be so difficult to break down that we won’t be able to use them in our own labs and factories. We’re gonna barrow your system for those more important things. This doesn’t mean you’re right! As an American I would like to let you know everyone else is still wrong.
You can take your re-tarded roller coaster and shove it.
As American’s we are really busy not being EU.
So we do things like have accept a Russian temperature system based off of the freezing point of frikkin brine, and the temperature of a person. If you hadn’t noticed both of those are variable. To the point that F100 is off by over one percent! What Russia isn’t EU.
Just to prove how smart we are, we are going to create our own needlessly complex measurement systems! Then collectively has a nation we are going to forget how they break down.
BTW those measurement systems are going to be so difficult to break down that we won’t be able to use them in our own labs and factories. We’re gonna barrow your system for those more important things. This doesn’t mean you’re right! As an American I would like to let you know everyone else is still wrong.
Amen!
I’m pretty sure those measurements predate America. Especially given that miles, yards, feet and inches are called “Imperial” measurements.
But then again, Americans have never let little things like facts get in the way of their history. :004j:
I’m pretty sure those measurements predate America. Especially given that miles, yards, feet and inches are called “Imperial” measurements.
But then again, Americans have never let little things like facts get in the way of their history. :004j:
Weight and distance certainly do.
In fact I think they were actually used in the European area previously.
I am sure Fahrenheit predates the US also. Actually, I just double checked it does and also it was created by a German not a Russian.
However, I will say this.
Facts are important for as many Americans as any other nation.
The trouble is, the portion of America that does in fact not care about these things are much louder than those of us who do…
Also, I have yet to meet an American who says imperial is better then metric and is capable of going from gallons to ounces from memory. I am actually being literal. When people pull this bull xxxx with me, I ask them to break down from gallons to ounces, no one knows what a F***ing gill is.
Some mix up pints and quarts.
I guess everything important has been said.
/closed due to offtopic.