once in a lifetime (in Off-topic)

This Wednesday at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

Not if you are from the civilized world where that date is the 4th May

im in a civilised world :), american dates always confuse me.

lol, that's cool! Thanks for the heads up! Now I'm going to have to go celebrate it being 1:02:03 4/5/6

01:02:03 05/04/06 doesn't really do much for me.
Why do you silly Americanz have to do mm/dd/yy ? I mean, that's like starting the alphabet B, A, C...

dd/mm/yy folks ;-)

go, G Beee, tell those Americanz today is the 4th of April, 2006.

spell properly! my Favourite Armour is the TSA!

a majority of the world use the letter "u" in lost of words!

The U's in the lost words don't count, Flamey.

G_Beee,

If I asked you what today's date was would you say:

A. April 4th, 2006

or

B. 4th April, 2006

???

In GB's defense, the word 'of' is left out of shorthand.

USA, not USoA.

Carry on ;)

Thanks Special_J...I have written both out below...which is easier to say?

"April fourth, 2006"

"The fourth of April, 2006"

Well, those people drink warm beer, eat the guts of animals stuffed with things people should not eat and drive on the wrong side of the road!

Easy is not their game sir!

And you may ask yourself:
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself:
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself:
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself:
This is not my beautiful wife!

huh?

It's the fourth of April silly! ;) Usually the 'the' gets dropped, and sometimes the 'of' gets merged with the 'fourth' or shortened to 'o'. :)

April fourth doesn't make sense.

Uhm, yes it does GL. You're just not used to it ;) But we already all kind of knew that.

To Americans April 4th sounds better because that is what we are used to but ironically we all say 4th of July instead for that day. Fancy that, the day we celebrate for our independence from the English and we say how you do;)

I browsed through forums briefly earlier today. Then I logged off and came to work. I've been wondering why I was singing Talking Heads on the journey. Now I know.

What does 'April fourth' mean then?

The fourth day of April? As in 'the fourth of April' maybe? April fourth doesn't mean anything.

'April the fourth' isn't the same as 'the fourth of April'.

Ah, pedantry reigns supreme! :D

It's the Fourth Of APRIL!!!!

It's only the other way around for bad Star Wars jokes.


As in May The......

Fourth be with you! :D

As Yoda would say, "Why do Americans dates in the wrong order construct?:

dd/mm/yyyy is the only logical way to do it!

Oh look, the Americanz are starting to wake up :D

Hey! I'm Canadian!

Beee doesn't read well, or he's got the same command of geography as poor GL.

yyyy-mm-dd is the only logical way to do it!

That, too, is logical. So there are two valid date systems...

Canadianz / Americanz, aren't you all the same thing anyway?

Nope, Canadians use s not z, we say honour not honor, armour not armor, and we probably need to use nospellcheck in order to make our point! And we don't really say "eh", that's just what the Americanz think ;)

"ruff", "roof" - you don't want to know how annoying that is..

I, and everyone I know, say "roof".

GL, in another thread I noticed you say you use elevators to travel floors - I thought you used lifts over there!

Oops, you corrected yourself. Catching up with that thread now ;)

My theory

Those countries that begin with the year first have citizens so intoxicated most the time, they don't know what year it is...follow that on down the line
to the prim and proper folk who start with DD...

I've never been called "prim and proper" before. Thanks, I think...

Actually this is a twice in a lifetime event, considering there is an AM and a PM.

Military time will kill the p.m., though, by turning it into 13:02:03 04/05/06.

No boy, it'll still be 1 military time or not, geeze :p

How do you know I won't live to the age of 124? I could live to see the next 01:02:03 04/05/06. I could!

lol....we found yet another excuse for champagne and drunken shenanigans at 1am today XD