Why does this website use the US date system instead of the International date system?
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- NUNuttiwOriginal PosterFeb 13, 2010
But the US system is illogical. Day Month Year, or Year Month Day is logical.
ReactReply - NUNuttiwOriginal PosterFeb 13, 2010
OK. I understand.
The 300 million people in the US must always supersede the 6.3 Billion people in the rest of the world.ReactReply - NUNuttiwOriginal PosterFeb 13, 2010
Actually, 99% will use the day month year. Except in the US of course.
ReactReply - NUNuttiwOriginal PosterFeb 13, 2010
Whoa!
It was just a comment.
I work in Asia Pacific area, I have many date formats to deal with.... My regional office is in Bangkok and the year here is 2543!!!!
Which date is really correct? I see that it depends upon you religion. But that is another topic.
I wish that everyone understands the differences in the world.ReactReply - GE
Gerry-4Feb 13, 2010The International System was set up for specific purposes. Scientists, diplomats and people who must work internationally follow this system.
Locally, people continue to use whatever system they prefer. In Canada, I can relate to km/h and degrees Celsius, but will still buy my potatoes by the pound and give my own height in feet and inches. Some things caught on, others didn't.
What's funny is when people from different countries come here and mingle with the "older" generation which never adjusted to metric at all. Some years back, someone from the Middle East was speaking to some Canadians on a bus in a Canadian city. He mentioned that every now and then, the temperature could go down to zero in the country where he was from. The Canadians replied that it RARELY ever went down to zero in their part of Canada, which was New Brunswick.
I couldn't help laughing. The truth is if the temperature is in degrees Celsius, the temperature is almost always below zero in the wintertime (this current year being an exception). If the foreigner wound up staying, he would have learned it soon enough... the hard way!ReactReply - NUNuttiwOriginal PosterFeb 13, 2010
Sorry. I wanted to have an inteligent discussion on the topic. If you are unable to be intelligent then I am sorry for you.
ReactReply - NUNuttiwOriginal PosterFeb 13, 2010
Hurray,
Someone that understands there is a world outside the US.....
I fully understand that the US is is the leader in many facets of technology. But it has never fully adopted the metric system, nor matched the date system that is used in most of the rest of the world.
I open this topic because it causes confusion. Mostly I want people to be aware of the differneces.
My ideal is that the whole world subscribes to the the same format (whatever that is). Now that is not the case. So those people that work internationally need to be aware of the different formats....ReactReply - NUNuttiwOriginal PosterFeb 13, 2010
Again I am sorry that I tried to have an intellectual conversation with you which you have confirmed that you are not capable of doing. You should also note that I have not sent you a PM since the time that you made it clear that your mind is closed to anything outside the US.
You may continue to live in your banal world of US centric thinking exclusive of the majority.
PS: I am not anti US, I belive that the US is great country that has lead the world in many in many ways. However, I consider that the thinking is sometimes insular and not in step with with 2010.ReactReply - KA
karhuukFeb 13, 2010The most useful system is Year:Month:Day. This system allows for filing in date order which none of the other systems do. That's why library systems around the world use it in their catalogue records. The system is also used in computer systems to provide date order and now that we're using the full four digits for the year, we won't have any problems until the end of the year 9999 when the 'milennium' bug will rear its ugly head again.
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ThomasFeb 14, 2010[quote]The USA is a lot of things, one of those things being is illogical. One simple example being, “separation of church and state” however all our states do is pander and enforce the whims of religious zealots. Another being like I mentioned earlier we allow our selves to be 48% owned by a communist party, yet we went through all that trouble in the 40's and 50's to stamp or the red devil! These things are very illogical. BTW: speaking my opinions and perspective is not 'flamming' it's called conversation and my right to free speech. If you don't like it ignore it. edit: correction it was Einstein's definition for insanity[/quote] Seperation of church and state means there is no established religion. King George felt that he should not consider the Pope the head of the church and felt he should be. He created the Anglican Church and declared it was the official church of England. Our country was founded my people of strong religious convictions and therefore laws were written accordingly. In the past few decades our "Freedom of Religion" has become freedom from religion due to actions of an avowed athiest. That is a far cry from "pander and enforce the whims of religious zealots"ReactReply - THThomasFeb 14, 2010[quote]really? If I ask an american when indepenence day is he/she are most likely to say 4th of july.. not july the 4th food for thought[/quote] Interesting point Freckles, however many will also say July 4th. I have seen both ways used by different people for any date. To me it doesn't matter which way someone writes the date as long as it is not numeric.ReactReply
- MEMemberFeb 14, 2010
Wow..if we can get this kind of response about time...I cannot wait for knives and forks and why Americans don't use their utensils correctly. Why, shucks, I just love switching that knife and fork......back and forth,......back and forth,......back and forth,......back and forth,......back and forth,......back and forth,......back and forth,......back and forth,......back and forth,......back and forth,......back and forth,......back and forth,......back and forth,......back and forth,......back and forth,.......OK, finished eating, time for looking at my calendar......wait......my American calendars.........or my euro-peon calenders. Darn, I am in a quandary now. Gosh.....forgot, I have some that start with Sunday but I just pulled one out that starts with Monday and they are both American calendars....what gives here....is their some American calendar company, secretly being infiltrated by a euro-peon in a three-piece suit.
Do I dare go to bed, should I alert counter terr-ism......am I over reacting. Am I off my meds.....am I on my meds? What is this...another topic.....I have lost all touch with the topic that started all this.
I know..I am going to start a forum topic....on people who cannot stay on topic...how would I do that...what topic would I start with...no topic...many topics with no relation to each other.....ahhhh....only topics that have nothing to do with nudism.....that would be a good topic.ReactReply - MI
Miss_LindaFeb 15, 2010[quote]Why does this website use the US date system instead of the International date system? [/quote] [quote]Because they can.
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BicyclenudeFeb 15, 2010Here's a curious note - when you provide a review for a nude location and indicate the date you visited, your date is recorded as yyyy-mm-dd. So the site is indeed diverse, with a little bit for everyone. Maybe Rodney King's dream - "Can't we all just get along?" - is being realized here at TN. Can world peace be far behind?
ReactReply - MEMemberFeb 15, 2010[quote]Here's a curious note - when you provide a review for a nude location and indicate the date you visited, your date is recorded as yyyy-mm-dd. So the site is indeed diverse, with a little bit for everyone. Maybe Rodney King's dream - "Can't we all just get along?" - is being realized here at TN. Can world peace be far behind?[/quote] World peace is closer than you think, Bicycle! I just noted in my sent messages box that sometimes international time (24 hour clock) is used and sometimes US time (12 hour clock) is used. It's wonderful to know that the date and time stamp on this site can be as diverse as it's members...JenReactReply
- MEMemberFeb 15, 2010
OMG!
We are getting WAY too serious here folks!
It is just time and date....abstract ideas at best.....we really dont need to get our towels in a twist over this minutae. Tomato, Tomaaato.
Vive le difference, you do it your way, and I will do it MY way.ReactReply - MEMemberFeb 15, 2010[quote]OMG! We are getting WAY too serious here folks! It is just time and date....abstract ideas at best.....we really dont need to get our towels in a twist over this minutae. Tomato, Tomaaato. Vive le difference, you do it your way, and I will do it MY way. [/quote] We need to change your name to FSfossil!
JenReactReply - MEMemberFeb 15, 2010[quote] Your statements just reiterate the tired old propaganda that people with out the ability to do their own thinking or research believe. I'm not even going to bother to set you straight because it would do no good if you believe your statements or would even make them it's would be pointless for me to try an argue with you illogical assumptions. As far as your forefathers, fighting for this country, who asked them to, besides the government who used them for their own gains? As I said there is no use in arguing with someone who's just going to parrot back the party line stories. You all obviously are part of the problem and not the solution so I will no longer try an debate anything with you because you don't know what you're talking about, try having your own thought sometime. You are right I miss stated the population by about a billion, sorry, it still doesn't disprove my point that a country of roughly 300 million shouldn't force their narrow agenda on the world. That agenda being, to do what ever necessary to increase the amount of loans taken out by the Federal reserve and world bank both controlled by private entities. Forcing people into a state of slavery and the inability to govern themselves. The USA uses 'helping' people and countries as a guise to controlling them, grow up.[/quote] I believe you hate the United States very much. Fortunately, you live here and not in a country such as Iran, where within seconds of what you have spouted, you would be up to your eyeballs in bovine excrement, literally. Since this is a nudist site, and not a political site how about we just agree to disagree. Using your own quote from your homepage, "I can build anything from almost any material. I'm fluent in all things technology. I'm a lover of languages, which means I tend to read a lot. I've deeply fascinated and frightened by the human psyche. I don't subscribe to most social norms, I consider them brainwashing or part of a marketing scheme, I draw my own lines." It is best that you go down your own path, because very few people, according to you have ever had an original thought. We must really bore you.ReactReply
- CD
Cheri Donna DawsonFeb 16, 2010[quote]Getting back to the subject, for our computerized world, the logical alignment for standardized dates would be year first, then month, then date, e.g., 2010/02/14, or 20100214. This makes date searching and sorting extremely simple. Of course, the issue is muddied by calendars that are entirely dissimilar to the western Julian/Gregorian calendars that hang on our walls. For instance, in the calendar used by Jews, 14 February 2010 = 30th of Sh'vat, 5770. The Chinese calendar is even more confusing to westerners, although it and its peers have been largely supplanted by the Gregorian calendar for daily use. In an ideal world, there would be one standardized calendar and one way of writing the date. However, this is a world of great cultural diversity, and people who have been using systems of dating for decades, centuries or millennia are not about to abandon them just to be "correct". For scientific use, particularly in astronomy, the Julian date is the standard. It has no years or months. It is the interval of time in days and fractions of a day since January 1, 4713 BC, Greenwich noon. The whole Julian day for 2009/02/14 is 2455242. It won't be replacing our Gregorian calendars any time soon. For the curious, here's a converter:Julian Day and Civil Date Calculator[/quote] AND...speaking of the Chinese calendar, to those who follow that, Happy New year - the year of the Tiger began last Friday I believe. Today on the Jewish calendar it's the 2nd of Adar (I have one on my desk). If a date is written 1/5/10 - I know it's either Jan. 5 or May 1st. However, the owner of this site is in the US. I can get used to anything. LOL :) CheriReactReply - MEMemberFeb 16, 2010[quote][quote]Getting back to the subject, for our computerized world, the logical alignment for standardized dates would be year first, then month, then date, e.g., 2010/02/14, or 20100214. This makes date searching and sorting extremely simple. Of course, the issue is muddied by calendars that are entirely dissimilar to the western Julian/Gregorian calendars that hang on our walls. For instance, in the calendar used by Jews, 14 February 2010 = 30th of Sh'vat, 5770. The Chinese calendar is even more confusing to westerners, although it and its peers have been largely supplanted by the Gregorian calendar for daily use. In an ideal world, there would be one standardized calendar and one way of writing the date. However, this is a world of great cultural diversity, and people who have been using systems of dating for decades, centuries or millennia are not about to abandon them just to be "correct". For scientific use, particularly in astronomy, the Julian date is the standard. It has no years or months. It is the interval of time in days and fractions of a day since January 1, 4713 BC, Greenwich noon. The whole Julian day for 2009/02/14 is 2455242. It won't be replacing our Gregorian calendars any time soon. For the curious, here's a converter:Julian Day and Civil Date Calculator[/quote] AND...speaking of the Chinese calendar, to those who follow that, Happy New year - the year of the Tiger began last Friday I believe. Today on the Jewish calendar it's the 2nd of Adar (I have one on my desk). If a date is written 1/5/10 - I know it's either Jan. 5 or May 1st. However, the owner of this site is in the US. I can get used to anything. LOL :) Cheri[/quote] Gung hay fat choy! JenReactReply
- DADanandJanetteFeb 18, 2010
NudeinMa, re post # 43.
My God, does that picture bring back memories! We spent many happy hours in that pool, sauna and hot tub. And the surrounding view of the mountainsides, especially off to the right of the picture. I remember speaking to one couple from Georgia in the hot tub who'd arrived that night, and telling them wait until morning to see a spectacular sight of that hill in the morning. Dear Lord, 20+ years ago now.ReactReply - DADanandJanetteFeb 18, 2010[quote]It's about 16 miles from me as the laser beam propogates, but until last October I was unaware that it still existed. Here's hoping that when the time is right, the flesh will be willing.[/quote] It is truly beautiful there. As you know, the two main camping sections are the "ghetto" in the lower field, and "heaven" in the upper. We had our trailer in the ghetto. If you happen to engage in conversation with anyone who was a regular there in the late 80's, they may remember us. We were, as far as I know, the only Canadians there who were full time members. We had on our trailer both an American and Canadian flag flying, a fact that was commented on frequently, always in a positive vein. Regulars who knew us well included a single guy named Spencer, who has since moved on to another camp.......and couples Angelo and Lillian, and Jeff and Julie, all located in the ghetto with us. As far as I know, those couples still attend. Jack and Hazel may or may not still be there. Good times.........still young, in our late 20's and able to tolerate the 11 hour drive from New Brunswick. Where or where does the time go?ReactReply
- DADanandJanetteFeb 18, 2010[quote] It's a bit childish to cavil over a mistake and ignore what I was actually saying.[/quote] Sure is, like "ignoramus" and "ignoramous".ReactReply
- MA
macnudeFeb 18, 2010The question is:Can you understand the date as written?If so who gives a big rats ass as to what system is used?ReactReply