"Pat Farrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 08:30 -0700, Patrick Dixon wrote: >> I think it's actually 'only' 3 months on! Since Slim are American they >> insist on using arse-about-face dates on their forum ;) > > It isn't just Slim, it is nearly all American dates. > It is arse-ackwards. As is using inches and feet and yards.
I think when our ancestors threw off the yoke of the British Empire, they just wanted to change a few things for spite. So they screwed around with the dates, used commas in large numbers (e.g. one thousand is 1,000.00 in the US and 1.000,00 elsewhere), and also they made ' mean feet and " mean inches, instead of vice versa, much to the chagrin of Spinal Tap's stagehands. Not adopting the metric system is just us being lazy and stubborn. Gotta have some fun when you're a superpower. ;-) Ed _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
