8th November?
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Shipmate
I think the date's wrong....
if it was last Thursday, that was 11th august.
is that a problem with the date format?
http://shipoffools.com/mystery-worshipper/st-joan-of-arc-hershey-pennsylvania-usa/#side-meta
if it was last Thursday, that was 11th august.
is that a problem with the date format?
http://shipoffools.com/mystery-worshipper/st-joan-of-arc-hershey-pennsylvania-usa/#side-meta
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11/8/18 = English nomenclature for 11th August 2018
8/11/18 = USA nomenclature for 11th August 2018
(Oscar Wilde?)
IJ
There is a similar problem with AM/PM. The original report had 5:00am but I did catch that one.
To quote the Head of my prep school on how to date things, using today as the example:
Tuesday - day of the week
21st - day of the month
August - month of the year
2018 - number of year (of Our Lord)
And if that lot were all put together on one line then you'd get "Tuesday 21st August 2018" which makes sense.
Whereas if you use the across-the-pond order you get "August Tuesday 21st (or August 21st Tuesday) 2018", neither of which makes any sense.
Then again, there is this!
IJ
SOUP? Yes, but with a side flask of GIN as well, surely!
Midnight to 1am would be Mattins and Lauds, I think, with Prime at 7am, no? Though their website seems to be unavailable at the moment.
I'll get me cowl...
IJ
The standard order here is month/date/year. If the day of the week is to be included, it comes first: “Tuesday, August 21/21st, 2018.”
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talked to a person visiting. I asked "are you on holidays?" to be told "no, I'm on vacation." I've had this said more than once, and I do not understand it.
Nor what the time is if someone says "a quarter of 4", is "of" before or after the hour?
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On the other hand, it always takes me a while to sort out if "half four" if half an hour before or after four.
Here, if you said “holidays,” many people would assume you mean “are you away from work or school because of a holiday?,” by which they would mean Christmas/New Year’s, Thanksgiving, the Fourth of July, etc. Of course, many others of us would know that “holiday/holidays” means what we’d call “vacation.”
Before. “Quarter of 4” and “quarter after 4” are common around here. Or were; they seem to be less so these days. Blame digital clocks.
Tuesday, August 21, 2018.
The 2018-08-22 is the historic computer date stamp way. If you sort identically named files apart from that date stamp they sort themselves into the correct order regardless of minor accidental amendments. I use this convention when data stamping files for just this reason but do not always bother with the dashes or dots.
In the U.S., I believe some people think that Superbowl Sunday should be on the liturgical calendar. (Churches know better than to schedule things like Annual Parish Meetings on that holiest day of the year.)
I once took to analysing the data that occurred in the weeks in which the Scottish Quarter day fell. So you got Martinmas (11th November), Candlemas (2nd February), Whitsun(15th May?) and Lammas (1st August). This caused confusion in a very secular English university. There was a good reason for it. Those weeks sort of fell in the nondescript parts of the year so when looking for the difference between the various terms and summer vacation you could do it with those weeks.
In ages past people would date things by major festivals and saints' days.
In English, or in German?
My preference, when writing dates for humans, is to write "Aug" or "August" for the month, so there's no ambiguity. Otherwise, dates are ISO8601, although I'll insert my usual complaint about how times should be based on TAI rather than UTC.
If I recall correctly it is difference between types of English. In my family British English and South African English.
Sadly, Lammas as a Church Festival seems to have disappeared round here.
I've come across Lammas services locally. Not sure if they are still happening.
Meanwhile, this Jesus will be stuck liturgically in Ordinary Time for quite a while.
Whitsun was always a fixed date in Scotland. It was the day on which feu duty was paid. Pentecost was religious, Whitsun was legal.
When I was a kid, my parents had a discussion every May as to whether they should pay the feu duty or redeem it.
Titles to land (including individual houses) all had feudal conditions. For example, if your feudal superior was the Church of Scotland, there would be a prohibition on making or selling alcohol. The feu duty was stipulated in the title deeds.
I don't know when the legal year and the calendar year synchronised.
I've liked the arbitrary and variable end of the fall season being the freeze up of lakes. There are multiple ice pans tinkling and swashing together, and then in very short order while you watch if you're there when it happens, they just get glue-frozen together and things become quiet. "Mikiskāw" in Cree, one of the 6 seasons in this local tradition.
Which is our tax / financial year down here.
It isn't inexplicable, just slightly complicated! So historically it started on Lady Day (25th March) but when we eventually changed to the Gregorian Calendar (In I think 1753), the tax year was kept to being the same length, so it shifted to April 5th (give us back our 11 days). Then in recent years people have decided it makes more sense to start on the first of the the month.