Rease Date: December 1, 2003!!!!!

[Kc7mxo]

Its true! Check this link!

http://www.bestbuy.com/software/detail.asp?e=11169993

PS: This is just a joke concerning apolyton's dating system. . . and is not intended to cause heart failure and severe depression among the already tormented moo3 hopefuls.

[MarkG]

you probably havent noticed that you can now choose your date and time format for the forums....

[rob.derosa]

No its 12th of January, you dumbass

[moomin]

This was funny as long as it lasted. MarkG, you shouldn't have shot it down... think of all the fun we could have had in this thread.

[Kc7mxo]

you probably havent noticed that you can now choose your date and time format for the forums....

No I hadn't. Heh, this joke was brought on because a friend of mine dropped into this forum a week ago, and was complaininig to me that there hadn't been any activity since october!




And has everyone tried froogle.com ? Thats where I found this ad, it seems to be a pretty cool search engine. its from the creators of google, and searches for sales and such.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Kc7mxo
No I hadn't. Heh, this joke was brought on because a friend of mine dropped into this forum a week ago, and was complaininig to me that there hadn't been any activity since october!

for another example of crazy dates....

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=71166

And has everyone tried froogle.com ?

did you try searching for "apolyton" on froogle?

[Randolph]

tried it... The first result was for Civ Fanatics!! the Second was for Apoloyton.
(or rather pages on the above sites I think)

[H Tower]

someone please remind me of how the date formats got so messed up over the years? I mean, its not like euros are from mars or something. or are they?

[Randolph]

don't they do it DD/MM/YY in Europe? It really makes more sense, I mean MM/DD/YY WTF... When you really think about it

[Tharsonius]

yes, we do it DD/MM/YY
I think we always did it that way

and we (the germans at least) use points between the numbers, not '/'
so today its 17.12.2002

[rob.derosa]

I agree, much better saying "23rd December 2002" that "December 23rd 2002"

But what is totally correct is the ISO 8601 format:

Complete date:
YYYY-MM-DD (eg 1997-07-16)

So The Euroupean way is basically that reversed, never really understood why America have to put months first, it really doesn't make sense. The first value(s) are the one that changes the most (days), the last value(s) are the ones that change the least (years)

[rob.derosa]

Originally posted by Tharsonius
yes, we do it DD/MM/YY
I think we always did it that way

and we (the germans at least) use points between the numbers, not '/'
so today its 17.12.2002

Its like the French use , instead of . in currency.

€4,39, for example.

Strange.

[vmxa1]

It really does not matter, it just what you are use to using. I suspect that we just did what any child does and rebel against the parents where ever they can, hence mm/dd/yy no metric and the like. They wanted to show there independance. Now we will be hard pressed to agree to one format on anything, too bad.

[rob.derosa]

Well different countries have seemed to have aggreed with the ISO8601 format.

[H Tower]

but since best buy is an american company, the date really should be 12/1/2003. what they're actually saying is december 1st 2003! unless best buy is full of eurocommies and subversives