It annoys me. We in the UK and our transatlantic cousins seem to differ fundamentally over how to display and refer to calendar dates, and it's even more annoying than the difference between us and our Oz friends over which way round to quote cricket scores. (If we have 100 runs for 2 wickets, it's 20 for 2, and they quote 2 for 20).
I can see the point of 28/12/04, and of 04/12/28, but not the slightest logic in 12/28/04. Of course, in the (now, sadly) famous date, we take 9/11 to be the 9th of November.
If I talk continually of 11/9 instead, it may be taken as insensitivity, but it would be sad if that date were to be the cause of the extinction of the British mode of date naming.
Just a thought.
1 comment:
The difference in dates is annoying, but it can be awfully handy if you're a 20-year-old foreigner trying to drink in the United States. It's June and your birthday isn't until October 5? That's okay, Stupid American Bartender thinks your birthday was May 11th.
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