International date format (Page 1 of 2)

The UK (Imperial) System of Measurement:

       Length
       """"""
  12 inches   = 1 foot
   3 feet     = 1 yard
  22 yards    = 1 chain
  10 chains   = 1 furlong
   8 furlongs = 1 mile
5280 feet     = 1 mile
1760 yards    = 1 mile

Brilliant!

That's the problem. You all grew up with it and therefore it makes sense to you. To the rest of us (all 6.1 billion), it makes no sense at all

I would always say 15th of January 2005, I would never put the month first. The most obvious case where this causes confusion is 9/11 which to us is 9th of November.

Rickard don't forget

12 Pence = 1 Shilling
5 Shillings = 1 Crown
4 Crowns = 1 Pound
1 Pound + 1 Shilling = 1 Guinea

And
437.5 grains = 1 Ounce
16 Ounces = 1 Pound
14 Pounds = 1 Stone
8 Stone = 1 Hundredweight
20 Hundredweight = 1 Ton

Now you know why we are such an inventive nation. You had to be a rocket scientist just to use the money.

Frank: That would be "Fluid ounces" of which there are 20 in a Pint.

The meter, quite obviously, is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second.

Isn't this a carry-over from days of yore when a foot was *about* the length of someone's foot, a yard was *about* the length of a man's arm, etc?  So its not like someone just chose arbitrary numbers for those measurements.

Driving on the left side of the road doesn't make any sense to me, either, but some of you wacky Europeans do it anyway. 

As far as the date thing goes, I think it sounds silly to say "eleventh of September" when I can just say "September eleventh".  I guess that's just my "confused shorty language" getting in the way, though.

assuming you know what a second is
which is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom at zero kelvins.

Well, yes, but don't you think it's time to move on?

Ah, I thought it was caesium-132!

I'm American so I am very use to the Imperial system and I will never ever support moving away from it.  It is quite easy to figure out and we really only use inches, feet, yards, and miles.  I measure weight in pounds, and volume in ounces.  We do have 2-liters of soda, which is now universally recognized.

As for time I think that 1:00 PM and 1:00 AM make way more sense, since our clocks only have twelve figures.  Unless you want to try and divide that into 24 numbers, which will be impossible to read and mess up with the way we read clocks now.

US dates aren't hard to figure out.  I usually write out dates (e.g. September 27, 2005), which some go short (9/27/05).  The short one is a bit harder to understand, but just remember how confusing it is to see 27/9/05.  I never knew there were 29 months!

Yes, it's easy to figure out, but that's the problem. You shouldn't have to "figure out" a measurement system. It should be trivial.

Clocks? I haven't looked at a clock for ages

No one ever said they were hard to figure out. It's just that you insist on using them when no one else in the world does.

only if thats the only one use...
the date is 03/04/02  what is the day, month and year?