I just noticed the date.
Of course, you Europeans and military types would be saying "4-10, good buddy." Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
That is all.
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LOL-
Fun dates like this are favorite inside "joke" between my boss & I. We often point out dates that are interesting. May 6th was a good one this year...05/06/07...or March 5th...03/05/07.
Yeah, it's 4-10 to me. :(
Incidentally, I think we should have a worldwide date system. A friend invited me to a concert a couple of years ago, I booked the time off work, and then he sheepishly phoned me the night before to apologise that having looked at the date on an American website, he'd thought it was on February 3rd when in fact it was March 2nd. I'm just glad he realised before we got there...
I prefer the day/month/year convention to the month/day/year one by far.
Even better, the "military" style of dating leaves no doubt whatsoever except for the century. It's DAY MONTH YEAR using the following examples:
13 Oct 82
4 Aug 07
etc.
I don't get it either. And indeed, we should have a worldwide date system, and it should not be the American system, which has never made any sense to me.
I love it cause it's my birthday and whenever I have to give people your date of birth and I say 10-4, it's funny, although not everyone gets it, but it's still fun to me :)
Actually, Mike if you wanted to be really technical, the military time used on maps, orders, etc leaves no doubt to anything, as I would say right now for me it's:
051350OCT2007
or October 5, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I think it would made much more sense to date things in a logical progression. Start with the smallest and work to the biggest; day/month/year. I'd even settle for the opposite; year/month/day. But switching the day and month doesn't make much sense to me at all. It's out of order
If you have to explain the joke, its no longer funny.
When truckers use the CB radio to communicate, they typically end the conversation by saying "10-4, Good Buddy. Over and out." So, the date 10-4 (in the U.S.) reflected the (in)famous phrase.
Since Europe and other parts of the world write the date as date/month/year instead of month/day/year, this joke is only good in the U.S. .
On my cell phone I programmed it to display military time and the European style dates, just to be different. :)
Perhaps some readers are too young to remember the CB (Citizens' Band) Radio craze of the mid-70s, as epitomized in the country song "Convoy" and hence don't get the initial reference. (I'm showing my age here.)
10-4 means "affirmative" or "yeah, buddy" in CB talk.
The date thing can be confusing. On the one hand, it's logical to go day-month-year, from least to greatest, viz. 5/10/2007, but to Americans it seems natural to numerize the date as we write it (October 5, 2007 = 10/5/2007).
Yea I don't get it...
Oh and to add on to Mike's depending on what form you are dating it could also be:
yyyy/mo/dd
dd/mo/yy
yyyymodd
and several other fashions, just to make it all simple of course.
I tend to write the date out with spelled-out months, because there's no possibility of confusion.
When I'm using numerical dates, I always use the ANSI standard, year-month-day. Reason? If you sort it alphabetically, it sorts by date! So when I've got a bunch of folders on my computer containing the digital photos I took, they end up properly sorted by date. Date styles like 10-04-2007 would end up sorting the months of October '07, October '06, and October '02 all together before the month of November '05.
you mean even the american military would say 4-10?
Wow, you American civilians *are* weird :P The rest of the ENTIRE WORLD (africa, australia, europe, even american military apparently!!) would say 4-10 as opposed to 10-4 :P
Personally, I prefer our current dating (you know what I mean!) system. I much prefer knowing the month first. Then I can put the day in the context of the month. The month means something even when there's no date attatched. The day, however, means nothing until the month is attatched. Maybe I'm just screwed up, but that way makes more sense to me.
If you'd like to leave a comment, we're afraid you'll have to use a non-mobile device to do so. I just couldn't get the mobile comment entry form to work right. Alas. ~Ted.
1. Beth L. said the following at 1:02 PM on Oct 4:
LOL-
Fun dates like this are favorite inside "joke" between my boss & I. We often point out dates that are interesting. May 6th was a good one this year...05/06/07...or March 5th...03/05/07.
2. Jo said the following at 1:56 PM on Oct 4:
Yeah, it's 4-10 to me. :(
Incidentally, I think we should have a worldwide date system. A friend invited me to a concert a couple of years ago, I booked the time off work, and then he sheepishly phoned me the night before to apologise that having looked at the date on an American website, he'd thought it was on February 3rd when in fact it was March 2nd. I'm just glad he realised before we got there...
3. Christina R. in Dallas said the following at 2:49 PM on Oct 4:
You crack my face, Ted.
4. Anne said the following at 3:32 PM on Oct 4:
I don't get it...
5. Mike Theemling said the following at 5:26 PM on Oct 4:
I prefer the day/month/year convention to the month/day/year one by far.
Even better, the "military" style of dating leaves no doubt whatsoever except for the century. It's DAY MONTH YEAR using the following examples:
13 Oct 82
4 Aug 07
etc.
6. Amelia said the following at 6:00 PM on Oct 4:
I don't get it either. And indeed, we should have a worldwide date system, and it should not be the American system, which has never made any sense to me.
7. Julie said the following at 6:20 PM on Oct 4:
Wikipedia: the place to go for choice brainfood tidbits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-code
8. brx said the following at 7:58 PM on Oct 4:
ANSI standard folks are 2007-10-04.
9. Britta said the following at 9:14 PM on Oct 4:
I don't understand......is this a line from a movie or something of that sort?
:-)
10. Karoline said the following at 10:41 PM on Oct 4:
I love it cause it's my birthday and whenever I have to give people your date of birth and I say 10-4, it's funny, although not everyone gets it, but it's still fun to me :)
11. BDB said the following at 11:03 PM on Oct 4:
When is Cinco de Mayo anyway?
12. RH said the following at 11:51 PM on Oct 4:
Actually, Mike if you wanted to be really technical, the military time used on maps, orders, etc leaves no doubt to anything, as I would say right now for me it's:
051350OCT2007
or October 5, 2007 at 1:50 pm
13. Kathryn said the following at 12:20 AM on Oct 5:
I think it would made much more sense to date things in a logical progression. Start with the smallest and work to the biggest; day/month/year. I'd even settle for the opposite; year/month/day. But switching the day and month doesn't make much sense to me at all. It's out of order
14. Carrie said the following at 6:42 AM on Oct 5:
If you have to explain the joke, its no longer funny.
When truckers use the CB radio to communicate, they typically end the conversation by saying "10-4, Good Buddy. Over and out." So, the date 10-4 (in the U.S.) reflected the (in)famous phrase.
Since Europe and other parts of the world write the date as date/month/year instead of month/day/year, this joke is only good in the U.S. .
On my cell phone I programmed it to display military time and the European style dates, just to be different. :)
15. John D. said the following at 6:57 AM on Oct 5:
Perhaps some readers are too young to remember the CB (Citizens' Band) Radio craze of the mid-70s, as epitomized in the country song "Convoy" and hence don't get the initial reference. (I'm showing my age here.)
10-4 means "affirmative" or "yeah, buddy" in CB talk.
The date thing can be confusing. On the one hand, it's logical to go day-month-year, from least to greatest, viz. 5/10/2007, but to Americans it seems natural to numerize the date as we write it (October 5, 2007 = 10/5/2007).
16. Joseph said the following at 7:08 AM on Oct 5:
Yea I don't get it...
Oh and to add on to Mike's depending on what form you are dating it could also be:
yyyy/mo/dd
dd/mo/yy
yyyymodd
and several other fashions, just to make it all simple of course.
17. Robin Munn said the following at 9:14 AM on Oct 5:
I tend to write the date out with spelled-out months, because there's no possibility of confusion.
When I'm using numerical dates, I always use the ANSI standard, year-month-day. Reason? If you sort it alphabetically, it sorts by date! So when I've got a bunch of folders on my computer containing the digital photos I took, they end up properly sorted by date. Date styles like 10-04-2007 would end up sorting the months of October '07, October '06, and October '02 all together before the month of November '05.
18. Leah said the following at 8:54 AM on Oct 7:
you mean even the american military would say 4-10?
Wow, you American civilians *are* weird :P The rest of the ENTIRE WORLD (africa, australia, europe, even american military apparently!!) would say 4-10 as opposed to 10-4 :P
19. Kathleen said the following at 9:55 AM on Oct 11:
Personally, I prefer our current dating (you know what I mean!) system. I much prefer knowing the month first. Then I can put the day in the context of the month. The month means something even when there's no date attatched. The day, however, means nothing until the month is attatched. Maybe I'm just screwed up, but that way makes more sense to me.