13/12/11

[Jerevand]

Like we've all said, it's 12/13/11 in the US. But cool for you guys! Also, we use a 12-hour clock.

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Because of the way it's spoken/written.

People say "December 13th, 2011" which transcribes to 12/13/11

Oh yeah. Here, we also say it the other way around (day, month, year). m/d/y still makes no sense whatsoever to me...

[Yardvski]

Oh yeah. Here, we also say it the other way around (day, month, year). m/d/y still makes no sense whatsoever to me...

ya ya ya we americans wanna be so different from yurope and sauth america


/sarcasm

[Penguins]

God damn, yes we do use 14:15 in America. It's called military time, and some people use it. After 12:59pm it goes 13-24 (which is 1pm-12am) then it goes back to 1-12.

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God damn, yes we do use 14:15 in America. It's called military time, and some people use it. After 12:59pm it goes 13-24 (which is 1pm-12am) then it goes back to 1-12.

Actually, it doesn't go 1-24, but 0-23. Despite some common popular misconception, there's no such thing as an hour numbered 24 (as long as you're counting hours within a day).

[J3NNiF3R]

This thread R cufuszing

[Spongebob]

In America we count 2, 1, 3, 4

I smell a new meme

[Skullish]

Like we've all said, it's 12/13/11 in the US. But cool for you guys! Also, we use a 12-hour clock.

So does everywhere else. People just sometimes don't choose to use 12 hour clock.

[Rammjet]

Because of the way it's spoken/written.

People say "December 13th, 2011" which transcribes to 12/13/11

Here it's more often than not 'the 13th of december', although because of american movie adverts, both formats are in wide circulation.

Day, month, year is a more logical progression, as it begins with the unit people are most likely not to know, and then continues to the larger units.

Decimal years and months would be even more logical though, but would be difficult to implement because everyone's used to the way their own country manages time. It's also tricky because the planet doesn't move in a year that is easily divisible into months and days.

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Here it's more often than not 'the 13th of december', although because of american movie adverts, both formats are in wide circulation.

Really? Didn't know that, interesting fact.

Day, month, year is a more logical progression, as it begins with the unit people are most likely not to know, and then continues to the larger units.

Agreed.

Decimal years and months would be even more logical though, but would be difficult to implement because everyone's used to the way their own country manages time. It's also tricky because the planet doesn't move in a year that is easily divisible into months and days.

Decimal calendars were tried and failed. It's impossible, because it's well known that a year has 365.24219 days, and that's a fact that we can't change.
The only decimal (actually vigesimal) calendar that succeeded was the Mesoamerican Long Count (the one that's commonly associated with the 2012 doomsday theories), and they still did a little adjustment -- the second to last digit goes up to 17 (not 19 like every other digit). Moreover, that calendar succeeded because they used it to specify moments distant in time, when accurately stating years didn't matter -- the 360-day year that resulted from the last two digits (20 values for the units place + 18 for the "tens" place) was enough, since those dates were more often than not hundreds of years away from their current. For common everyday dates, they used the Calendar Round, which was made of a 365-day calendar (18 months of 20 days plus 5 extra days) and a 260-day one (comprising two separate counts of 13 and 20 days).