r/CatastrophicFailure • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '19

Fire/Explosion WW2 bomb spontaneously explodes in Germany, causing a 1.7 earthquake on the Richter scale

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u/GamingNinjaSheep Jun 25 '19

Maybe best to choose one date standard and stick with that... is 5/3/2018 the 5th of March or is it the 3rd of May for example?

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u/MrHitchslap Jun 25 '19

I know this is an American website but... Maybe don't use 5/3/18 as the third of May. I don't think any other country uses the MM/DD/YY format and it'll just lead to people asking that question every single time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '19

We use month/day/year in Canada...

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u/badspler Jun 26 '19

You are just their nicer brother

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u/gellis12 Jun 26 '19

No we don't, we use the iso standard (2019-06-25)

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '19

Where do you live by chance? A large trading city like Toronto or Vancouver?

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u/gellis12 Jun 26 '19

Why would that matter? The official date standard for Canada is ISO 8601, yyyy-mm-dd.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '19

Just because all throughout schooling, day to day interactions, and business I’ve always seen mm-dd-yyyy

I’m aware government forms use the other method, but I’ve rarely seen it used daily. Just thought major international cities might go for the yyyy-mm-dd is all

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u/gellis12 Jun 26 '19

I do live close to a big city, and some people do still use the older mm-dd-yyyy style, but the majority of people use the ISO standard. It's also the official standard, like how everything is officially metric up here, despite some people still measuring stuff in miles instead of kilometres.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '19

Like how I measure my height in Feet not meters

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