Comments on: Why is it 9-11 and not 11-9?

By: Tanya Espanya

Tanya Espanya — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:24:53 +0000

And maybe you’d like to do a post about the titles on books and how here they start at the top and we read down (with our heads tilted to the right) and in Eurolandia they read from the bottom up, heads tilted to the left…

By: It’s Canadians who are confused about date notation at Gifted Typist

It’s Canadians who are confused about date notation at Gifted Typist — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:10:37 +0000

[...] a spirited explanation from Zed, I did a quick google and found that the 9-11 notation is correct by every national and [...]

By: gifted typist

gifted typist — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:18:16 +0000

That pretty well says it Zed.

By: zed

zed — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:38:48 +0000

Okay, okay, let me ‘splain. When it comes to 9/11, it doesn’t matter if Canadians write dates such as 11 Sept/07 instead of 11/9/07, or 11 Nov instead of Nov 11, or 11-3 instead of 3-11. Since 9/11 was an American disaster, Americans get to call that day whatever we please, and since we express dates such as 9/11, that’s what we’re going with, not the reverse (11/9). See, we win once again.

The other reason? Just as you said GT: “I can see that 9-11 rolls off the tongue. It sounds like 911 the number you call in an emergency.”

Okay, I’m going quietly now. Don’t beat me! I’m not THAT bad.

By: Tanya Espanya

Tanya Espanya — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:23:28 +0000

I talk about you all the time…he barely talks to me… (Tanya in a corner, crying)

By: gifted typist

gifted typist — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:03:36 +0000

Ahhhhhhh…. you two are precious, just precious….

PS does he ever talk about…. me?

By: Tanya Espanya

Tanya Espanya — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:32:50 +0000

I’ll never be over Dale. And he’s only ‘over’ me because he lives north of me.

By: gifted typist

gifted typist — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:14:52 +0000

I’m with you Dick. If they don’t create a standard, I say we storm the ramparts of the Canadian Standards Assn. With burning spears.

Espanya, really? The opposite of Dale’s? That’s amazing.
Are you over him yet? Or is he over you?

By: Dick

Dick — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:47:03 +0000

There is no date standard. I always write the date like so:
9 Sept/07 so there is no confusion for reasonable intelligent people.
I got an invoice a while back that was due 04/08/07…I paid it 4 months late, and didn’t offer up an apology.
It was discussed on “Live it Up – What bugs me?” and unfortunately the various institutions change to a single standard. I think the CSA should be all over it.

By: Tanya Espanya

Tanya Espanya — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:32:32 +0000

I think you’re right that it’s a US thing. I think England especially does the day/month thing, and probably the rest of Europe (maybe the rest of the world?).

I always get in a muddle when I have to fill out a form and they don’t tell me what order to put it in.

I like to write my birthday as Nov 2 instead of 2 Nov.

And my birthdate is the opposite of Dale’s. (11-2 or 2-11?) And that’s the only way I can remember my birthday.