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Originally Posted by CDSmith
While we're at it, why isn't the whole world up to speed on the correct way of writing monetary amounts?
USA & Canada: $1,895.00
Europe: $1,895,00
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Actually it would be 1.895,00 in Europe. Using a , for both thousand seperator and decimal seperator would clearly leed to many errors in transactions
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Originally Posted by woj
14:20
?zehn vor halb drei? (ten to half three) <-   |
That's actually only used as a dialect - most people would say "Zwanzig nach Zwei" which would be "Twenty after 2" - but that's also only used on informal occassions and only for 5/10/15/20/etc.
14:23 would be like "Vierzehn Uhr dreiundzwanzig" "fourteen hours twentythree" ...
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Originally Posted by Beaver Bob
YYYY-MM-DD is what I prefer for sorting purposes.
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True, use it for all electronic data, allthough the "official" date format is dd.mn.yyyy here.