Skeptic7 Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 1 hour ago, sirineou said: Thank you for that , I thought the same and tried to see if it made any difference but it did not. The problem has been resolved thanks to the help from treetops. As I suspected it was a Google preference issue, I thought I had set all my preferences to US as shown in my screenshot a few replies above, but apparently I had not. I tried it numerous times for the exact same searches BEFORE suggesting it, and it worked every single time without fail. Without US VPN...Thai date. Switch on US VPN...western date. Anyhoo, glad u got sorted out. 1
sirineou Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 1 hour ago, TigerandDog said: that date format is better than the stupid american date format Today is July 18th 2023 Nothing stupid about that. 1 1
lopburi3 Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 1 minute ago, sirineou said: Today is July 18th 2023 Nothing stupid about that. It gets bad when they mean July 2nd 2023 and printed expiration date 07/02/2023 (so appears to most of the world expired 5 months ago).
lopburi3 Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 1 minute ago, Antiparovian said: JUst take 543 away from the date K I S S (head math is not - most people can even give change without a calculator these days)
Skeptic7 Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 1 hour ago, sirineou said: Thank you for that , I thought the same and tried to see if it made any difference but it did not. The problem has been resolved thanks to the help from treetops. As I suspected it was a Google preference issue, I thought I had set all my preferences to US as shown in my screenshot a few replies above, but apparently I had not. Yes...and thx for this❗Now my results have 2023 instead of 2566 WITHOUT using VPN. ???? 1
sirineou Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 2 minutes ago, Antiparovian said: JUst take 543 away from the date It's true but not easy to do when you are researching an issue and have dozens of search returns all with different dates.
sirineou Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 13 minutes ago, lopburi3 said: It gets bad when they mean July 2nd 2023 and printed expiration date 07/02/2023 (so appears to most of the world expired 5 months ago). For you guys dont eat food that is still good, How about us that eat expired European food thinking it is still good? While nothing much happens to you , We get sick!! We should sue you and your dangerous system.???? All a matter of perspective, In china they put the year first. The way I understand it is that the US borrowed their format from the English from when they were an English colony. The UK changed their format to match the rest of Europe in the 20th century but we never did. I would have thought that with Brexit they would have changed back LOL
sirineou Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 6 minutes ago, sirineou said: For you guys dont eat food that is still good, How about us that eat expired European food thinking it is still good? While nothing much happens to you , We get sick!! We should sue you and your dangerous system.???? All a matter of perspective, In china they put the year first. The way I understand it is that the US borrowed their format from the English from when they were an English colony. The UK changed their format to match the rest of Europe in the 20th century but we never did. I would have thought that with Brexit they would have changed back LOL Now that I think about it more , I am starting to get upset!! and suspect the whole thing about putting the date first in Europe is grand conspiracy to sell us expired food,????
lopburi3 Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 11 minutes ago, sirineou said: For you guys dont eat food that is still good, How about us that eat expired European food thinking it is still good? While nothing much happens to you , We get sick!! We should sue you and your dangerous system.???? All a matter of perspective, In china they put the year first. The way I understand it is that the US borrowed their format from the English from when they were an English colony. The UK changed their format to match the rest of Europe in the 20th century but we never did. I would have thought that with Brexit they would have changed back LOL It gets worse with medical reports - had to explain the international system to doctors in US more than once over the years. Most of us are still using yards/feet/inch for measurement and think 37 is a cold day in Maine.
Luuk Chaai Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 43 minutes ago, lopburi3 said: K I S S (head math is not - most people can even give change without a calculator these days) try that on a local chashier .... went to Macro yesterday,, invoice was 1510 baht hander her 2/1000 and a 10coin deer in the headlights ..... she actually called the floor manager over to see what to do .... I wound up getting my coin back and 490 change 2
sirineou Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 12 minutes ago, lopburi3 said: It gets worse with medical reports - had to explain the international system to doctors in US more than once over the years. Most of us are still using yards/feet/inch for measurement and think 37 is a cold day in Maine. True. Since most of the world uses the Metric system, I am in favor of all of us using the same system, but then there is economics and money spend . No one wants to make the initial investment and is trapped in a legacy system. Not different than the English driving on the wrong side. Can you imagine the chaos it would cause for Thailand to change the side people are used to driving on , so they are trapped into a legacy system , where most of the world drives on the right. There was a move for the US to convert to the Metric system in the seventies, but I think it was abandoned during the Reagan era because it was too expensive.
digger70 Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 Fixed the Time Date Year from Buddhists to Gregorian on my MacBook Air M2 found the problem . Maybe this can help some people
lopburi3 Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 Quote Posted 1 hour ago 2 hours ago, lopburi3 said: K I S S (head math is not - most people can even give change without a calculator these days) try that on a local chashier .... went to Macro yesterday,, invoice was 1510 baht hander her 2/1000 and a 10coin deer in the headlights ..... she actually called the floor manager over to see what to do .... I wound up getting my coin back and 490 change Obviously my typing is worse than my math - it should read 'can't' rather than 'can'.
TigerandDog Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 2 hours ago, sirineou said: Today is July 18th 2023 Nothing stupid about that. That is the the stupid american date format, viz 7/18/23. The real western world uses 18/07/23 (18 July 2023). The american date format is so stuffed up every month until the 13th of each month, viz is 7/1/23 the 1st of July OR 7th January. Only americans would know it was supposed to be July 1st. The yanks have not only corrupted the english language but the calendar as well. 1
TigerandDog Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 7 minutes ago, lopburi3 said: Obviously my typing is worse than my math - it should read 'can't' rather than 'can'. AND cashier rather than chashier
lopburi3 Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 34 minutes ago, TigerandDog said: AND cashier rather than chashier That's what happens when you learned to type on an M28 Teletype - computers are just not the same.
Satcommlee Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 This has annoyed me too for years , it got so bad that I had to learn that 2566 = 2023. 1
sirineou Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 2 hours ago, TigerandDog said: Only americans would know it was supposed to be July 1st. Ok let me aske you this. what flows better and is communicated with an economy of words when you are asked when something occured? july 18th 2023 or 18th of July 2023? notice the first was communicated using thee words,and numbers and the second was communicated using four words and numbers, If you were a contestant on Wheel of fortune it would had cost you extra capital to purchase a vowel , and that my friend is simply wasteful. With throwing your vowels around No wonder we had to come in an pull your <deleted> out oh the fire WW2 . Waste not, want not, is the moral of the story. 1
TigerandDog Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 18 hours ago, sirineou said: Ok let me aske you this. what flows better and is communicated with an economy of words when you are asked when something occured? july 18th 2023 or 18th of July 2023? notice the first was communicated using thee words,and numbers and the second was communicated using four words and numbers, If you were a contestant on Wheel of fortune it would had cost you extra capital to purchase a vowel , and that my friend is simply wasteful. With throwing your vowels around No wonder we had to come in an pull your <deleted> out oh the fire WW2 . Waste not, want not, is the moral of the story. and that's exactly why americans have corrupted the english language and calendar. They take short cuts with the language by spelling everything phonetically, and your wheel of fortune explanation is a joke. In the PROPER english language the DATE is ALWAYS first followed by the month and then the year. Here's where's there's a huge problem, those of us that live in the real english speaking world don't read 9/11 as Sept 11th but as 9th November, and that's the MAJORITY of the english speaking world. 1 1
sirineou Posted July 19, 2023 Author Posted July 19, 2023 1 hour ago, TigerandDog said: and your wheel of fortune explanation is a joke. Of course it's a joke , Too bad you did not get it. Perhaps I should have used more words ???? 1
scottiejohn Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 2 hours ago, sirineou said: Of course it's a joke , Too bad you did not get it. Perhaps I should have used more words ???? Perhaps you should have used fewer, (or is it less in your case?) words and we might have found the joke somewhere! 1
sirineou Posted July 19, 2023 Author Posted July 19, 2023 Just now, scottiejohn said: Perhaps you should have used fewer, (or is it less in your case?) words and we might have found the joke somewhere! You don't really think I seriously thought that the American system is supperior because it uses less words? Or that the discrepancy had any relationship to what happened during WW2 ? 1 1
brianthainess Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 On 7/15/2023 at 7:47 AM, sirineou said: from the Thai calendar to a western calendar . Mine only shows the American date not English Day/ month/year USA Month/day/year so frigging annoying, i missed an important date bcoz of this 1
scottiejohn Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 13 minutes ago, sirineou said: You don't really think I seriously thought that the American system is supperior because it uses less words? Or that the discrepancy had any relationship to what happened during WW2 ? The above post is hilarious in it's own way but the post you are referring to certainly was not funny!
brianthainess Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 On 7/18/2023 at 3:12 PM, Satcommlee said: This has annoyed me too for years , it got so bad that I had to learn that 2566 = 2023. My biggest winge car tax month written in Thai instead of numerals.
sirineou Posted July 19, 2023 Author Posted July 19, 2023 31 minutes ago, scottiejohn said: The above post is hilarious in it's own way but the post you are referring to certainly was not funny! Who am I to argue with the ministry of funniness. I learned my lesson from the debate of putting one thing on top of another , when I tried to suggest that we could also put things next to each other, and now defer to the experts. I also want to take this opportunity to promise to try and be funnier in the future but by no means does such promise guarantee final product. Prices will vary , tax where applicable. 1
scottiejohn Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 46 minutes ago, sirineou said: also want to take this opportunity to promise to try and be funnier in the future If your past attempts, including this one, are anything to go by I would suggest that you stay at your present boring day job! 1
sirineou Posted July 19, 2023 Author Posted July 19, 2023 20 minutes ago, scottiejohn said: If your past attempts, including this one, are anything to go by I would suggest that you stay at your present boring day job! noted 1
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