I'm not really well-versed in this kind of thing to make any particular comments, but this made me rage:
>Please reply to this message by 05.10.2023 to let us know that you received it and intend to make the applicable changes.
How effing arrogant do you have to be to say something like this? No "please respond and we can talk about it", it's "please confirm you know we're the big guys, and you're going to do what we say".
Impossible, what madman would use a date-format that goes $MONTH.$DAY.$YEAR that basically have a random order instead of $DAY.$MONTH.$YEAR or $YEAR.$MONTH.$DAY? No one would be that crazy, it's too ambiguous to be useful.
It's clearly intended to be 5th of October, 2023.
(This may or may not be sarcasm, in case people may not or may misunderstand)
I'm not american, but they always seem to do month.day.year for some bizarre reason
It's one of those things that America inherited from England, and then when England changed its method, the Americans saw no need to change because it wasn't part of England anymore.†
If you go into antiques stores in England, you will find that with items that are engraved, the older it is, the more likely it will have the now-American date format.
There was an item on Antiques Roadshow a couple of months ago that was a gift from Queen Victoria to someone that had an engraving that included the American date format.
† This is true for a surprising number of minor differences between America and England. In life, it's often better to understand the history of things, rather than just ignorantly write off a group of people as bizarre.
Decimals proceed in order of refinement to smaller increments. Years are long, months are collections of days, and days are collections of hours, and so forth.
> Then again, we write our dates in a more sensible manner.
yawn
Yeah we write our dates in a more sensible manner too. And also we drive on the correct side of the road and imperial units of measurement are superior.
I have been in the US for 30 years but metric is way better... all that nanometer stuff in your computer is metric not imperial as well
for example a 10cm cube filled with water weighs 1 kilo and is 1 liter, boils at 100 degrees. In the US you deal with cups pints, quarts, gallons... and you can't even convert easily between dry and liquid stuff
I do agree that steering wheels should be on the left :-)
I was being sarcastic because none is better, it's what we're used to. I can do measurements in both imperial and metric, but because imperial is widely used in MY country, I find it "superior", same with everything else.
I think that's because that's how the full date is spoken. It's "September Eleventh" not "Eleventh of September". If someone said "My birthday is twenty-seventh of November" I would wonder if they're a synth.
I wonder how that would play out in court. Is it a valid defence to say that you responded a few months late because your local jurisdiction uses DD-MM-YYYY?
Yeah, if you insist on using your weird American date format, use "May 10th, 2023" or at least "05/10/2023" to make it less ambiguous, using dots implies DD.MM.YYYY the same way as using dashes implies YYYY-MM-DD...
> use "May 10th, 2023" or at least "05/10/2023" to make it less ambiguous, using dots implies DD.MM.YYYY the same way as using dashes implies YYYY-MM-DD...
For most of the world, using slashes also implies DD/MM/YYYY. For instance, I would write today's date as 17/05/2023.
The good news is on a dozen days during the year the US and the ROW are on the same page (MM/MM/YYYY or DD/DD/YYYY if you prefer).
Somebody should check if those days are generally associated with fewer accidents, higher stock returns and a pronounced sense of global peace and harmony
The letter is a demand for action that assumes a conflict exists and the client is correct. It is standard. The recipient can acknowledge and agree or acknowledge and disagree.
>Please reply to this message by 05.10.2023 to let us know that you received it and intend to make the applicable changes.
How effing arrogant do you have to be to say something like this? No "please respond and we can talk about it", it's "please confirm you know we're the big guys, and you're going to do what we say".