Metric to imperial in Farming Simullator 17

[Smith Modding]

Do you really say it like that too?

[bassaddict]

<nerdComment>
Everyone is duscussing about the right date format, but noone mentioned the right one: year-month-day. That's the only one that can be sorted properly on a computer with a simple string compare, without any fancy parsing or any other unnecessary pre- or post-processing.
</nerdComment>

Sorry, but yes, this comment was necessary

[Ragman]

Do you really say it like that too?

Yes day, month, year.

[RogueRooster]

It's a difficult thing when it comes to talking with Americans, to them 9/11 is obviously the date that horrific acts were committed but to us 9/11 is the 9th of november (but we all know that for America it's very different) and it has started that here in the UK some people will now do month first then day but not often.

[AmeriFarming]

Thanks for your help guys!

[ErwinR55]

<nerdComment>
Everyone is duscussing about the right date format, but noone mentioned the right one: year-month-day. That's the only one that can be sorted properly on a computer with a simple string compare, without any fancy parsing or any other unnecessary pre- or post-processing.
</nerdComment>

Sorry, but yes, this comment was necessary

Dang, I wanted to point this out aswell

[JohnDeere318]

Just sounds and looks weird, day/month/year = 4/9/2017. It looks April 9th to us Americans.

@bassaddict's "nerd" comment would actually be better for both worlds, year/month/day.

But yeah as Smith said, us Americans use the month/day/2017, 9/4/2017. It does get me confused when looking at FS event stuff and it has Euro dates written.

[chaseydog]

Just sounds and looks weird, day/month/year = 4/9/2017. It looks April 9th to us

I thought it looked weird as well when I first saw day/month/year, now I actually prefer it that way, seems cleaner to me. The one convention that some European countries use that will never cease to confuse me is swapping "," and "." as thousands and decimal separators. Writing five thousand and twenty five point seventy five as '5,025.75' vs '5.025,75'

[JohnDeere318]

Wow, that is weird: 5.025,75.

[redglasses]

Just use this chart

This is too good

[ErwinR55]

Wow, that is weird: 5.025,75.

Wow, that is weird: 5,025.75.

[TomXP411]

Ok I'll agree with you on the conversions, but the way we write our date makes so much more sense

I don't even... what? Why?

Why would the month BEFORE the day make more sense?

ok 9/4/17 means it is september the 4th 2017.
that makes more sense than
17/9/4 which means it is 2017 september the 4th. I don't get why you'd do it that way

Actually, yyyy/mm/dd makes the most sense. You can sort dates that way, and it puts the biggest units out front... you know, how we write all numbers. Whenever I enter dates in computer software, I always try to use that format, since it's the most consistent.

Putting the day or month first can easily be confused for each other. does 9/6 mean June 9 or September 6? Putting the year first, 2017/09/06, is completely non-ambiguous.

[Lisertan]

Hm true. That would work as well.

[Stegei]

Wow, that is weird: 5.025,75.

Wow, that is weird: 5,025.75.

That's why I like the Swiss formatting: 5'025.75 or 5 025.75
Both will not lead to confusion when no decimal part is present. E.g. it's not clear what 5,002 or 5.002 means. Five thousand and two, or five and 2 thousandths"? But the meaning of 5'002 and 5 002 is always clear.

[Mike3650]

E.g. it's not clear what 5,002 or 5.002 means. Five thousand and two, or five and 2 thousandths"? But the meaning of 5'002 and 5 002 is always clear.

Quite clear the first one is: five thousand and two and the second one is: five point zero zero two