... Yes but the OP is saying that Steam have it the sensible way round now.
Rather than it being January 20th, 2013 (1/20/2013) ala Americans the sensible way to write it would be 20th of January 2013 (20/1/2013).
As much as I agree wholeheartedly with the OP that Steam is now writing properly, he is just trolling all the Americans.
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.> It makes more sense to say it is the 20th day of January than it does to say it is the 20th day belonging to January which is what you just said using the 's for possession.
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Maybe to the rest of the world? Because only the USA uses that wreid date format. It's anti-natural http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0B3Gz7CcrZc/TG3Fex66wvI/AAAAAAAAMSw/DCPZuD0RtV0/s1600/go+america.jpg
The same with the imperial units.
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month = only up to 12 entries (1 to 12) , day = up to 31 entries (1 to 31) , year = infinite entries
12 < 31 < infinite = america got a point
still I hope they had made a standard so we wouldn't be confused as fuck when dates like 5/11/2012 happens. May 11 or November 5? lol
copy pasted my response
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YYYY/MM/DD adhearing to RFC 2550 in future and past is only format that allows arbitary precission and does work untill heath death of universe and in next possible universes if universes are cyclic in nature.
DD/MM/YYYY is okay too, but not as good...
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Imperial units are based on natural things though. 1 inch is the length from your thumb joint to the end of the thumb (for a grown human), 1 foot is literally the length of an average adult foot (and =12 inches), 1 yard is the distance from middle finger tip to nose tip with arm out-stretched, 1 hand is 1 handspan. 1 chain is 22 yards (distance between a pair of cricket stumps, but it arose from a measuring chain).
I can't tell you the logic behind weights and miles / furlongs / fathoms though as I would have to kill you.
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And that's the reason they're primitive and inefficient. All this units are imprecise by definition.
Plus scaling them is a nightmare. If I say 569 grams I know it's 0.569 Kilograms, 569000 milligrams, or 0.000569 tons. If I say 612 inches I can't get it in miles easily.
So, natural? Really?
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Natural isn't necessarily logical. But yes, I agree that it is a daft system.
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As an American I agree with the OP. I personally prefer year/month/day over day/month/year. One problem I frequently face is that I don't know if a date is in month/day/year or day/month/year format. I wish this damn country would just get on board with the rest of the world so I can eliminate that bit of mental clutter
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There's no absolutely right or wrong way to express date and time, it depends on the country. But I think OP has a point, it may be annoying to have to figure out these things to some people. It would be great if you could for example manually decide how date and time would be shown on your Steam. It's just a minor thing, but it would be pretty helpful.
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^this. It would take so little effort for Valve to program I think.
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Sorry to say that, but America's method is just plain wrong no matter how you look at it: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0B3Gz7CcrZc/TG3Fex66wvI/AAAAAAAAMSw/DCPZuD0RtV0/s1600/go+america.jpg
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month = only up to 12 entries (1 to 12)
, day = up to 31 entries (1 to 31)
, year = infinite entries
12 < 31 < infinite = america got a point
still I hope they had made a standard so we wouldn't be confused as fuck when dates like 5/11/2012 happens. May 11 or November 5? lol
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Just because days can go to 31 doesn't make days a 'bigger' unit than months.
You should always order things in units, not values.
Days (smallest unit) -> Months (larger) -> Years (largest unit)
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There really should be an internet-wide standard for this. I often find myself scrolling up or down a page looking for a number larger than 12 so I can work out if the date format is written the American way or the correct way.
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haha, I do the exact same thing. The standard internet format could be the sane way of doing things. i.e. the way the rest of the world does it. Or as I mentioned elsewhere year/month/day which is my personally preferred format since when I'm looking for something by date I most likely know the year but may or may not know the month and certainly don't know the precise day.
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Plus, with Year/Month/Day it's sorts itself properly alphabetically. So if you have many files (ie, security camera videos) in a folder and they're named like that they'll be ordered in the folder. If you have any of the other formats they will not.
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date format related image: http://i.imgur.com/qfexD.jpg
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It's highly illogical no matter where are you from.
Either say the largest unit first and follow with smaller ones in order (YYMMDD), or the other way around (DDMMYY). Starting with the middle one has no logic whatsoever. Only reason is the historical one which is hardly a reason at all. (Historical reasons only generate a mess, no matter the field or context.)
Same with stupid sexagesimal time units. But unlike US time format the whole world uses this one, so no change there ever I guess.
Btw. I'll never remember which one of 12PM/12AM is noon and which is midnight. Brilliant format there too.
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My old methid of figuring AM/PM was totally wrong. I was thinking like A was for After (12) and P was Pre-12, but after learning it's the other way around, I always know which one's which, but I have to think a few seconds first.
A = morning/midday
P = Afternoon/night
Damn that "logic".
(Sure, it's logical in Latin, but what the hell?)
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I use YYYY-MM-DD when writing Original Air Dates on my torrents, else they won't sort in proper order.
The US date format sucks. It would be like sorting names based on the third letter of the name, first.
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It's a shame this picture is not actually 100% correct.
1st. Burma and Liberia do not (officially) use the metric system.
2nd. I think you forgot about Japan and how they use the YYYY/MM/DD format.
That does say "The rest of the world" so yeah.
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Yea,because figuring out what AM/PM is, requires alot of brain usage.Jebus,people always try to find something to complain about.
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Yeah,that's kind of understandable,I was just referring to "Now they have to change 10PM/AM to 22/10 and we will understand when events will take place and and maybe i will start liking Steam ."
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I can see how american time order is "wrong." But you get very use to it when grow up with it. lol :p
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They finally changed the date order to the right way http://i.imgur.com/Vts5Z9S.jpg
Now they have to change 10PM/AM to 22/10 and we will understand when events will take place and and maybe i will start liking Steam .
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