palindrome

[low_delta]

Palindromes are cool. Well, they're not as exciting when they're numbers, like today's date. 10-11-01.

October 11th, 2001: 10-11-01
I know that Europeans write their dates with the day first (11-10-01). Are the British the same?

Comments

[fleur.livejournal.com]

I hate to have to tell you this, but actually Great Britain IS actually IN Europe ... ;)

But yes, they do.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I always think that, but then I hear them talking about Europe like it's someplace else. You know, like "Europe and the UK." And if they drive on the wrong side of the road they might do other odd things. So I just want to be sure.

[melodysk.livejournal.com]

*They* say Europe and UK because we are part of the continent of Europe but we are an island so have a few ..um ..quirks ;o)

Anyway ...we drive on the correct side of the road

:oÞ

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

There is no wrong side of the road, right? ;-)

[banana.livejournal.com]

If everyone else is coming at you head on, that's wrong enough for me.

[sherahi.livejournal.com]

[Damn you beat me to that! *high five*] Hee :)

[sherahi.livejournal.com]

Chile and Argentina also write the date first, then the month. In fact, when I travel, I haven't ever once noticed someone writing it like they do in america. In fact, because of this, a couple years ago I changed my style so that on checks and places I write the date, I write it:
"21 October 2001" 9 times outta 10. I spell the month. That is how most 'international' companies do it to avoid confusion and its a pleasant way to look at it, don't you think? :) And that way you don't worry about which number is the month. I see more and more people doing that. But I always catch myself looking at date-numbers more carefully in case they've been 'switched', when looking at non-american things. I really think we're the only ones still doing it...(unless you're an american writing home...)

HEY, here's a letter from my canadian friend in equador, and she also put the number date first, and the number month...*shrugs*

[sherahi.livejournal.com]

I hate it when I spell ecuador wrong :(

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I used to work with Canadians, and I couldn't remember how they wrote it. When I send sthings overseas, I spell out the month too. Even if I were to write it with the month number second, they would probably assume I was writing it American style.