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At least, it is to USians. I suppose in Oz and SA and the UK (etc.) it must be 13/12/14 which isn't nearly as interesting.

But far more sensible.

While I generally eschew the strange furriner ways of measuring things, (like Celsius and the silly metric system) I have to admit it does seem more logical to express dates in a progression from day-to-month-to year rather than our month/day/year way of doing it .

I agree with you both. Is it reflected in actual words, the date thing?

Are USians more likely to say "It's December 13th" while UK/Ozians are more likely to say "It's the 13th of December"?

Perhaps we English speakers are more likely to go for the complete sentence?

Lord Jim wrote:While I generally eschew the strange furriner ways of measuring things, (like Celsius and the silly metric system) I have to admit it does seem more logical to express dates in a progression from day-to-month-to year rather than our month/day/year way of doing it .

And here it's becoming more and more common (and I typically do so unless a form or something forces me otherwise) to write year/month/day, as in 2014-12-13. The added advantage for me is that for several types of correspondence, like insurance claims, etc., I use the date as the document name because it is the only distinguishing element, so files ordered by document name are automatically sorted chronologically when I view those folders.

just a bit ago it was 9:10:11 12/13/14

A numerical coincidence in an arbitrary system of measuring time has what to do with either religion or philosophy?

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rubato

rubato wrote:A numerical coincidence in an arbitrary system of measuring time has what to do with either religion or philosophy?

Religion is based on a philosophy related to reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. A sequence of a rare combination of numbers used in measuring time is something that causes some people to think philosophically and seek wisdom where it may or may not exist.

Guinevere wrote:just a bit ago it was 9:10:11 12/13/14

Teh local newspaper had an article about a couple of babies that were born at that time/date.