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HobbsTiger1 · Post by **HobbsTiger1** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:33 pm

He's European, and you're American. We Americans do dates funny.

dennisj1 · Post by **dennisj1** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:35 pm

No, I think the European date format is funny (and wrong)

HobbsTiger1 · Post by **HobbsTiger1** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:41 pm

I don't feel like arguing, but since they did it first, and we deviated, then we are the off ones.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 2:29 am

dennisj1 wrote:No, I think the European date format is funny (and wrong)

The only format that is wrong (and stupid) is the American. Think about it:

Europe:

DD/MM/YY (as in day<month<year)

Japan:

YY/MM/DD (as in year>month>day)

America:

MM/DD/YY (as in ??? (nothing that makes any sense))

Richard213 · Post by **Richard213** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:31 am

its MM/DD/YY becuase we understand it better saying

June 9th, 2005

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:14 am

This american date confuses me all the time. When I see 08/06, I never know if it's June 8 or August 6.

Btw, does UK use the same date order?

anonone · Post by **anonone** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 5:36 am

I'm American and I think the MM/DD/YY dates are wacky. Gimme YY/MM/DD any day.

Works great for sorting!

Lemonzest · Post by **Lemonzest** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 5:39 am

is this realy the place for arguing about date issues?

but as we are, how about the iso standard

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:02 am

At least some people show common sense.

It doesn't surprise me the least that ISO would format it like this.

But I think that's too much to ask from Americans!

After all we are talking about the only civilized county in the world that refuses to use a metric system of measurements.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:07 am

Daniel wrote:This american date confuses me all the time. When I see 08/06, I never know if it's June 8 or August 6.

Btw, does UK use the same date order?

9th of June 2005

Post by **Enjay** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:20 am

Smallest - days, next - months, biggest - years.

09/06/05

But I agree, the ISO method, reversing that notation makes even more sense, not that I use it. The American method is illogical from a numerical POV IMO.

It may be a language thing though. I don't know about how Americans say the date, but Cutman has accurately written down how Brits (at least the ones I know). Today is the 9th of June 2005. I'm guessing Americans would tend to say June 9th?

anonone · Post by **anonone** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:30 am

Enjay wrote:I'm guessing Americans would tend to say June 9th?

Yup.

Lemonzest · Post by **Lemonzest** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:30 am

how about we get back on topic and fix my bug?

anonone · Post by **anonone** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:58 am

Sure, but I've also got a question to ask first.

Something I'm working on requires unique animations for different attacks, but all with the same weapon. Hence: switching skins on demand via DECORATE, or maybe implementing custom actor states that can use different sprite names. I just wonder if it's an easy business to add in a skin switch command to the custom weapon and actor definitions.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:01 am

Or via ACS would be nice. Also would it be possible to check the player names too?