The Random Post Thread
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I stumbled on a show I used to watch when I was about 5 or 6 years old and watched an episode of it for old times sake.
I noticed somebody in the credits who soon after became best known on a couple other shows...
Mr Dingle will be back in 2 and 2!
The kids show he began his career on? The New Zoo Revue. He was the postman.
I noticed somebody in the credits who soon after became best known on a couple other shows...
Mr Dingle will be back in 2 and 2!
The kids show he began his career on? The New Zoo Revue. He was the postman.
Random: given the choice, do you write dates with a hyphen or a slash?
11-16-2016 or 11/16/2016
Slash for me.
11-16-2016 or 11/16/2016
Slash for me.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
I do slashes. I also do it in the only order which is unambiguous. 5/4/2022 means either May 4th, 2022 or April 5th, 2022 depending if you are in Canada or the USA. I write the date as 2022/11/16. So May 4th is 2022/05/04 and April 5th is 2022/04/05.
You're a maverick.
How does putting the year first eliminate the ambiguity of day/month vs. month/day?
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
There is no YYYY/DD/MM. By putting the year first, you are going biggest to smallest unit. No ambiguity.
Any normal person who says today's date would say "November 16, 2022." Therefore the proper way to numericize the date – I don't know if "numericize" is even a word but it should be – is 11-16-2022. Canadians would write the date as 2022/16/11 but I can't imagine any Canadian saying the date is "2022, 16 November." No further questions, your honor.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Nobody writes the date as 2022/16/11. 2022/11/16 is not a Canadian way. The Canadian way is the British way: 16-11-2022. Which is confusing since it is opposite of the USA way of 11-16-2022. Further complicated is that not 100% of Canadians follow the British way. Some follow the American standard. Which is why I write it 2022/11/16.
And as I write this I realize it is wrong. It should be 2022/11/17 since I am in EST and it is already past midnight.
I put the year first, month, then day when I name files. It’s easier to sort them on the computer. If you go month first, things are out of chronological order when you’re trying to track revisions.
In elementary school, I used to write the date with slashes ie 11/17/78. Then one teacher demanded all students write the date on their paper with dashes 11-17-78. I thought it looked bad, didn't like it, etc (hey I was 8) but was forced to do it the whole school year. Of course, by the end of the year (a year is long to an 8 year old) it felt like the 'right way to do it' and I just kept doing it that way.
Years later, maybe high school, I remembered that I used to use slashes and started forcing myself to do it the "old right way/new wrong way" until it felt right again, just as an eff you to that teacher. Since then I write/type it with slashes.
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When it comes to dates on the computer, like naming folders, I do YYMMDD so they're in order.
Example, a song my band is working on (three recordings)
restless220306.mp3
restless220321.mp3
restless220329.mp3
Here is the wrong way to do it (someone at my work has this structure)
10-1-21\
10-15-21\
10-23-21\
10-8-21\
11-12-21\
11-19-21\
11-26-21\
11-5-21\
1-15-21\
12-10-21\
12-17-21\
1-22-21\
12-31-21\
12-3-21\
1-29-21\
1-8-21\
2-12-21\
If you say so. Personally, I always put the month before day, so I don't know if your theory works for the other people. But I encounter the day-before-month thing with Formula 1 schedules, which is particularly troubling when planning a trip around a race.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
It's the British/European convention. As long as they exist, this format is valid. If you ever come to Canada you will also see it more. As long as month or day is first, it will always be ambiguous.
I conducted a scientific study. Here are my findings:
Telephone numbers, such as 867-5309, use dashes, not slashes.
Social Security numbers, such as 999-55-1234, use dashes, not slashes.
Len Barry's 1965 #2 hit 1-2-3 used dashes, not slashes.
The Presidents' 1970 #11 hit 5-10-15-20-25-30 Years Of Love used dashes, not slashes.
The Gary Toms Empires' 1975 #46 hit 7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (Blow Your Whistle used dashes, not slashes.
The 1846 slogan "54-40 or fight," which related to an Oregon boundary dispute, used dashes, not slashes.
The daily Los Angeles Times has 24 comic strips and six single-panel comics. Three have no date. Two (Crabgrass and
Pearls Before Swine) use slashes (11/17). Twenty-five use dashes (11-17).
Draw your own conclusions.
Telephone numbers, such as 867-5309, use dashes, not slashes.
Social Security numbers, such as 999-55-1234, use dashes, not slashes.
Len Barry's 1965 #2 hit 1-2-3 used dashes, not slashes.
The Presidents' 1970 #11 hit 5-10-15-20-25-30 Years Of Love used dashes, not slashes.
The Gary Toms Empires' 1975 #46 hit 7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (Blow Your Whistle used dashes, not slashes.
The 1846 slogan "54-40 or fight," which related to an Oregon boundary dispute, used dashes, not slashes.
The daily Los Angeles Times has 24 comic strips and six single-panel comics. Three have no date. Two (Crabgrass and
Pearls Before Swine) use slashes (11/17). Twenty-five use dashes (11-17).
Draw your own conclusions.