BAN DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE!

[VigilEagle04]

It's ok NJ, we all make those goofs. I'm sure I confuse some Europeans when I do tax returns for our company, because I know I've mixed up the commas and decimals for them (just in case some don't know, commas are used like we use decimals, and decimals like we use commas, just about everywhere else in the world when it comes to numbers).

[packsaddle]

...not to mention the metric system.

[VigilEagle04]

Well, I don't have to worry so much about that. When I use numbers it's all about money usually.

[Eagle92]

I'm surprised that Sailing hasn't gotten more involved in this conversation as banning the stuff would put a definite hamper on Sea Scouts as they use the stuff all the time.

[sailingpj]

I'm not to worried about that. My ship doesn't normally use Dihydrogen Monoxide, we usually use NaCl(aq). Very different stuff.

[NJCubScouter]

Vigil: Plus they write dates funny over there. I mean how are you supposed to know whether 4/5 is April 5 or May 4? When it's 20/9 then its pretty obvious, but for the lower date-numbers its impossible. Though I suppose I'd have to admit that date-month-year is probably a more logical order than month-date-year, since it's in, um, order.

[sailingpj]

I have to remember that date thing whenever I go diving because PADI wants all the dives to be logged day month year.

[Woapalanne]

"Day-month-year" IS more logical (and we use it verbally all the time - as in "Camp starts the 5th of April."). Everybody in the world except U. S. civilians use that format, so it is easy to remember: If it's not U.S. civilians talking, then the first number is the day. (As a ham operator, all my records and logs are in that format, as well as in UTC time. It's when I have to convert from DMY that I get confused......)

[frank10]

Life would be so much easier for every one if we all used YYYYMMDD format.

[sailingpj]

No no no, the rest of the world just needs to follow in behind the US with the MMDDYY format, also the Imperial system too. Do away with all those other logical date formats and counting systems.

[John-in-KC]

Just use Julian date (last digit of the current year and todays ordinal number in a 365/366 day year).

 

Today is 0300.

[DancesWithSpreadsheets]

Actually there is an international standard (ISO 8601) that specifies the date format of YYYYMMDD (or YYYY-DD-MM). It's mainly for electronic data interchange, but it eliminates or reduces ambiguity in other situations as well.

 

Regards,

 

DWS

[frank10]

And makes sorting a file a whole lot easier too.

[Woapalanne]

The 24-hour clock (no, it's NOT "military time") makes so much more sense, too.

 

"Meet me at the Dining Hall at 7:00 tomorrow." Uh.... are we having breakfast or dinner? Can't tell from that.

[sailingpj]

Yes, 24 hour time, the metric system, and YYYYMMDD or DDMMYYYY are much better systems, but I like Fahrenheit better than Celsius because Fahrenheit often seems warmer.