Had these internationally shipped to the U.S.. I appreciated the mini lesson on how to correctly read the date.
by TaleFantastic3204
Had these internationally shipped to the U.S.. I appreciated the mini lesson on how to correctly read the date.
by TaleFantastic3204
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It’s also how to correctly write it, Yankee. Tell your brethren, and join the rest of the sane world.
While we’re at: films are in cinemas from the xth of month, not month x. You guys manage to celebrate the “4th of July”, get on board the rest of the year.
I’m yet to find out what months 13 to 31 are called
You say that, but you’d be amazed at the percentage of Americans who don’t realise they put date back-to-front and get all confused at things. I think this is just “playing it safe”.
The UK date format = almost all the world except the US.
They probably get fed up of complaints they out of date
I don’t understand why places don’t have it that way, it makes so much more sense
A man of taste I see.
You can’t beat pickled onion.
The world would be a much better place if we removed the warning labels and let nature take it’s course. This is just another example of pandering to the utterly stupid.
Why did you ship them from UK when you can get them shipped from the US?
Can we actually replace both formats with YYYY—MM-DD?
You just know for a fact they dealt with a huge number of complaints about “out of date” food from Americans not realising that the rest of the world doesn’t do it the American way
The way it should be.
This is definitely a repost. I’ve seen it before somewhere.
Steve-O? Is this you?
Maybe one day you’ll get it left… To right. Instead of middle to left to right.
Not just the UK surely? Everyone with an iota of common sense.
See also: metric v imperial.
I was at work in a supermarket once when I had a customer approach me with a massive basket of food.
Sounds normal enough, it’s a supermarket and customers buy food.
Then, she opened her American mouth and said “All of this food is out of date, I took it all off of the shelves for you.”
I checked the dates, and had to explain our date format to her. Nothing in her basket was out of date.
Used to work insurance for trucking in Merica from the UK. This was a daily struggle even in a job where a start and end date is pretty important!
That is why if 9 11 happened in the UK or Europe, it would be called 11 9 as Americans flip the date which is so fucking confusing as I know this crap happened in September, but subconsciously I read 9th of November 2001 instead of September 11th 2001.
I can never wrap my head round the logic of Americans arguing “The month is more important, that’s why it’s first”. Do you casually forget what month you’re in, and that’s why it’s first?