Friday, March 01, 2013

Writing Dates

XKCD web-comic from today captures my sentiments exactly.



I know this is not how we do things in the US but doesn't it make the most sense?  YYYY-MM-DD. Dashes are great as the universal delimiter but with the rise of the web I'm totally fine with the decimal point. 

The slashes, though, they get to me every time.  Its like writing"A/C" for "air conditioner".  At Cessna I saw people use "A/C" for "aircraft".  Or "b/c" for "because".  Coming from one with limited grammatical skill, this makes no sense.

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