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Synchro909 · 06-18-2019, 07:34 PM

This is completely off topic but not!?!? It is about the different way we write dates.
We write day/month/year so today is 19/06/2019 (or 19/6/19 - ascending order). I believe Europe write them in descending order. But I digress.
Friends of ours were visiting the US recently and while there, their son turned 21 which meant he was legally able to enter a bar etc. (That happens at 18 here). As he and his family entered, he was challenged by security and asked to prove his age. He showed them his driver's license but because of the different way dates are written, when read the US way, he wasn't yet 21 so he was excluded. His whole family decided to go elsewhere. The dumb assed security guys couldn't conceive the notion that not everywhere writes dates the same as in the US even though his father showed his license which would have had him born in the 23rd month!!!!

06-18-2019, 07:34 PM	#7
Synchro909 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 7,504	Re: Happy 90 years old 6/18/29 firewall cars. This is completely off topic but not!?!? It is about the different way we write dates. We write day/month/year so today is 19/06/2019 (or 19/6/19 - ascending order). I believe Europe write them in descending order. But I digress. Friends of ours were visiting the US recently and while there, their son turned 21 which meant he was legally able to enter a bar etc. (That happens at 18 here). As he and his family entered, he was challenged by security and asked to prove his age. He showed them his driver's license but because of the different way dates are written, when read the US way, he wasn't yet 21 so he was excluded. His whole family decided to go elsewhere. The dumb assed security guys couldn't conceive the notion that not everywhere writes dates the same as in the US even though his father showed his license which would have had him born in the 23rd month!!!! __________________ I'm part of the only ever generation with an analogue childhood and a digital adulthood.