So what? It's a UK site...
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So what? It's a UK site...
Soldato
You say that like there are only the UK customers ordering from us.
But, this is the UK!!!
Soldato
Lol, yeh but it's German softwarejust be glad they were thinking of you and didn't do their time method - mm/dd/yyyy
Awaits the name change announcement to 'Caseking UK'...
one thing i noticed when looking at the motherboards here
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pc-components/motherboards/intel/lga-1150-h81-chipset
when reading the description at the bottom it states that they are a
"Intel Sockel 1366 Mainboards / Motherboards"
when they are socket 1150
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pc-components/motherboards/intel/lga-1150-h81-chipset
when reading the description at the bottom it states that they are a
"Intel Sockel 1366 Mainboards / Motherboards"
when they are socket 1150
Soldato
Overzeeclokerz next? lol
Just because you are sitting in the UK, doesn't mean that's the only place we sell to. You are upset that the date format allows EVERYONE to understand the date? Just because you don't like the format.
I personally write all dates YYYY-MM-DD, because I am a programmer and I know that any date system will recognise this format without making mistakes, but also because it avoids confusion, we are a tiny island in a MASSIVE world.
To think the world revolves around us would not make very good business sense, if it does not make good business sense, we as a UK company fail, less revenue brought in to the UK harms the UK.
Making the date in UK format just because its UK format would be a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I personally write all dates YYYY-MM-DD, because I am a programmer and I know that any date system will recognise this format without making mistakes, but also because it avoids confusion, we are a tiny island in a MASSIVE world.
To think the world revolves around us would not make very good business sense, if it does not make good business sense, we as a UK company fail, less revenue brought in to the UK harms the UK.
Making the date in UK format just because its UK format would be a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Soldato
Disagree as we are the 'UK'. We shouldn't have to bow to other standards. Too many things in the UK are getting changed to suit 'other' nationalities!
So, having the date the way it has always been means OcUK would lose revenue? It would look better if UK companies stood by their heritage and tradition!
Its a bloody date format. Christ.
Edit: having said that;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
Appears YMD although the official international format is quite sparsely used.
Still hardly worth making an issue over
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Edit: having said that;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
Appears YMD although the official international format is quite sparsely used.
Still hardly worth making an issue over
.
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Soldato
Its a bloody date format. Christ.
Edit: having said that;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
Appears YMD although the official international format is quite sparsely used.
Still hardly worth making an issue over
Agreed
Wouldn't matter if we were the kings of the world, consideration for others should always come first or we are no better than animals.
Bow to other standards? Its the INTERNATIONAL date standard, its not bowing, no country owns or uses that standard nationally from heritage. It was made up to stop confusion.
Its not like a particular country made it up and now we all bow to it, it was a considerate joint collaboration to accommodate ALL people, instead of being selfish and only considering one set of people.
Personally I would change all dates to this, because when sorting files in this method they actually sort in the right order
instead of having all files that are from the 1st of the month first. Just saying.The reason is because DD/MM/YYYY can be confused with MM/DD/YYYY where the day factor is less than 13, however YYYY-MM-DD cannot be confused with anything as YYYY-DD-MM does not exist and anyone that used that would be ignored for being stupid.
I don't know why you agree with me my post was originally ridiculing your previous one
.Its nice the problem is limited to North America.
Do date formats really bother people that much?
Only time Ive ever considered date formats is for computers readability. Never considered human issues with them.
At first I didn't like it, but got used to it. My main criticism would be the amount of clickable tabs all over the place. Comparing to Amazon who I think have a great design, they have very user friendly department menus, and they sell everything. The old site was a bit outdated though so it's a good change.
Don
Can't say that it bothers me, and most people should be able to interpret international dates just as easily as UK dates as it is mostly common sense.
If OcUK started using Julian number or Epoch Time for a date format, then yeah it might bother more than a few people
