Reply to: Happy Pi day!

[Addanc]

ISO 8601 - Means dates are easily sorted in a string format.

[ZZZZ Snoozer]

Pi Day

Not long till 3/14 1:59:27

[SallyAnne]

Good to see you're back in the thick of it, S-A

yes I'm quite pathetic - cant even storm off properly <shakes head>

[Swamp Thing]

I say 14th of March.

And as John Galt will tell you, anyone who disagrees with me is a moron.

HTH

Good to see you're back in the thick of it, S-A

[Lucifer Box]

Martes Shurely?

You are right, of course.

And don't call me Shirley.

[Buffoon]

All but two of my clients are in the US, but on the reports and dates I use the format dd MMM ccyy e.g. 07 Mar 2007. It winds the yanks up a little bit, but there is no long term confusion.

On one chart I have MMM yy. I had one of the little darlings saying that the chart time axis ordering was wrong because I had something like Dec 05, Jan 06, ...., Dec 06, Jan 07. I just laughed at him and then he realised it was a monthly chart. You could hear him going red over the phone.

[Euro-commuter]

Personally I say "Ante Diem I Nones Martius MMDCCLX Ab Urbe Condita".

I find it hard to believe anyone does it differently.

Martes Shurely?

[Lucifer Box]

Personally I say the fourteenth of March.

Personally I say "Ante Diem I Nones Martius MMDCCLX Ab Urbe Condita".

I find it hard to believe anyone does it differently.

[SallyAnne]

I say 14th of March.

And as John Galt will tell you, anyone who disagrees with me is a moron.

HTH

[Euro-commuter]

because when most people speak they say March 14th , not 14th of March ?

They do now, because they have picked up the American way of speaking, probably from TV and films.

Personally I say the fourteenth of March.

Which is of course followed by the Ides.

[Bluebird]

because when most people speak they say March 14th , not 14th of March ?

[BoredBloke]

Why do the yanks use that format? To me it is just not logical. I mean, dd/mm/yyyy is obvious as each bit covers a larger chunk of time than the bit which came before it.

[Euro-commuter]

Pi Day

I love the wikipedia entry:

March 14 the approximation for Pi: 3.14
...
July 22 (22/7 in some date formats, a popular approximation of pi)

The first date is in US format, so has no comment.
The second date is in the format used almost everywhere outside the US and Japan, so it is describe as "some date formats". Yes, just a few.

[threaded]

Pi Day

Being a bit of a perfectionist I shall be waiting until just before 3.30 this afternoon, but no doubt I will have missed it when it happens.

[Buffoon]

Well, wait until 22 July then.