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atomic7732

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the official way to write dates
« on: February 27, 2013, 08:52:56 PM »

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Re: the official way to write dates
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2013, 09:45:31 PM »
tell that to bla

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Re: the official way to write dates
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2013, 09:55:27 PM »
He uses that...

I'm the one that does it without dashes.

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Re: the official way to write dates
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2013, 10:15:35 PM »
no bla doesn't use dashes and refuses to use dashes therefore fucking up his graph on the collective storage spreadsheet

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Re: the official way to write dates
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2013, 06:26:36 AM »
That makes two then I guess.

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Re: the official way to write dates
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2013, 07:48:58 AM »
Why the dashes? They don't tell you any information. They just seperate the numbers to make it "look nicer". It's very space inefficient.

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Re: the official way to write dates
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2013, 08:42:04 AM »
because information on a computer doesn't take up space so it's easier to read

also bla just use that format for the collective storage spreadsheet on the thing of total ubsr resources so that you can use the timeline format and it will all be lovely :)

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Re: the official way to write dates
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2013, 01:20:38 PM »
Screw ISO! Each country has it's own format.

And this guy Iso comes along thinking he can change our ways. NOES! Go away ISO!

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Re: the official way to write dates
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2013, 01:21:35 PM »
yeah i think dashes or other symbol in place makes the text much easier to read, just like commas are used to space large numbers


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Re: the official way to write dates
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2013, 01:22:16 PM »
ahhhhhhhhhhahahhaha so so true!

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Re: the official way to write dates
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2013, 03:58:57 PM »
commas are used to space large numbers
no

my opinion on date standard: yyyyXmmXdd

where X is any spacing character or none at all (where I prefer none)

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Re: the official way to write dates
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2013, 04:03:49 PM »
"Hey what day is it?"
"2013..."
"Okay good start we're in the right year I see I didn't flit into another timeline when I asked"

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Re: the official way to write dates
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2013, 04:16:57 PM »
"the correct way to write numeric dates"

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Re: the official way to write dates
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2013, 04:27:57 PM »
kolok it's in a chat then