Gregory Rainsborough Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Stop using mm/dd/yyyy and change it to dd/mm/yyyy for when you press m (top left) date. I'm sure I'm not the only one that gets annoyed by using this system. 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sella Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Or at least add the option to select which one you want. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hethwill Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Age of sail logs entries are by month blocks. They would state the month once and then the day number per entry needed ( and individual entries for different hours during the day ). So MM/DD For gameplay reasons, sure. Have an option to choose format. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wren Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 (edited) 43 minutes ago, Gregory Rainsborough said: Stop using mm/dd/yyyy and change it to dd/mm/yyyy for when you press m (top left) date. I'm sure I'm not the only one that gets annoyed by using this system. Whose flag is on the moon? And you can keep your metric system too! Lol Edited July 5, 2018 by The Wren 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Percival Merewether Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 3 minutes ago, The Wren said: Whose flag is on the moon? I believe that was covered in great detail in the documentary "Iron Sky" by Timo Vuorensola, Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beagleplease Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 (edited) 10 minutes ago, The Wren said: Whose flag is on the moon? Feel free to use mm/dd on the moon On Earth we do things proper. Edited July 5, 2018 by beagleplease 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Fishy Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 what about the asian system of yyyy/mm/dd? Its what they use for archives and most filing systems too 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beagleplease Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Makes more sense than mdy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qw569😳 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 What about Epoch time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadkill Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Is it the same day here as on the moon? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Moon doesn't have a day-night-cycle, as it's tidally locked. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanjo Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Gregory Rainsborough said: Stop using mm/dd/yyyy and change it to dd/mm/yyyy for when you press m (top left) date. I'm sure I'm not the only one that gets annoyed by using this system. Yes. Yes, Yes...this ridiculous illogical format gets right on my tits! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanjo Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 41 minutes ago, Fluffy Fishy said: what about the asian system of yyyy/mm/dd? Its what they use for archives and most filing systems too That's because they write right to left!..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Texas Sir Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 I actually never understood the Month/Day/Year thing for the US, but than again in the miitary we would us 05JUL2018 not 07/05/2018.....so can I get it 05JUL2018 instead please? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanjo Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 20 minutes ago, Sir Texas Sir said: I actually never understood the Month/Day/Year thing for the US, but than again in the miitary we would us 05JUL2018 not 07/05/2018.....so can I get it 05JUL2018 instead please? NATO standard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Death Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Ok but I want an option to change all measurements from your silly metric system to the proper Standard (FPS) system. Inches and feet. You know, the measurement system that actually makes sense to use. [insert man on the moon remarks here] “Hmm what’s half a millimeter? A quarter of a millimeter? Uh....lemme calculate that real quick for ya *bunch of zeros behind a decimal*” Vs. “Hmm what’s half a sixteenth of an inch? 1/32nd an inch. Half of that? 1/64th.” Yes this is definitely what NA needs most right now. We don’t have any OP ships that need balancing or any broken game mechanics. 😂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanjo Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 13 minutes ago, William Death said: Ok but I want an option to change all measurements from your silly metric system to the proper Standard (FPS) system. Inches and feet. You know, the measurement system that actually makes sense to use. [insert man on the moon remarks here] “Hmm what’s half a millimeter? A quarter of a millimeter? Uh....lemme calculate that real quick for ya *bunch of zeros behind a decimal*” Vs. “Hmm what’s half a sixteenth of an inch? 1/32nd an inch. Half of that? 1/64th.” Yes this is definitely what NA needs most right now. We don’t have any OP ships that need balancing or any broken game mechanics. 😂 You've been using a metric system from day one, Pennies/Cents to Dollars? Inches are split into tens, hundred's and thousandths etc. Don't get me wrong I am old enough to remember being taught the IMPERIAL system, BUT, the metric system makes waaaay more sense. Your date format sucks and is not logical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Death Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Actually, since we’re in a game with ship construction we should be using feet inches and eighths and pluses since that’s what they’d likely be using. That’d be 2-3-4+ for 2 feet 3 and 9/16ths inches. But perhaps that’s too nautical for you metric types 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir William Hargood Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 The Yanks are simply a bunch of "versetters en dwarstrekkers". That's Dutch/Afrikaans for basically a Rebel but with much more meaning. They cannot play by the rules. They just re-invent everything just to be difficult. Look at their sport...and then they call it World Series and stuff...😝 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir William Hargood Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Just now, Louis Garneray said: And we should have different feet and inches depending of the nation we are in Or what city: a Middelburg foot and an Amsterdam foot differed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capn Rocko Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Brits need to drive on the right side of the road. It is annoying and makes no sense. Much like this suggestion 😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greysteak Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Batman said: Moon doesn't have a day-night-cycle, as it's tidally locked. It does actually. A day on the moon equals it's orbital period. It spins once around on it's axis for each orbit of the earth. About 327 hours of daylight followed by 327 hours of night each lunar day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesore Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 2 hours ago, Batman said: Moon doesn't have a day-night-cycle, as it's tidally locked. A moonday or -night would be 14 earthdays or -nights. Just es just. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beagleplease Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 54 minutes ago, Capn Rocko said: Brits need to drive on the right side of the road. It is annoying and makes no sense. Much like this suggestion 😀 I actually agree with you as a brit I'd be willing to change for the greater good. Now admit that your dates are silly 😋 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moria15 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, seanjo said: NATO standard... not true. mm/dd/yy is only a us civilian date format and the USA is the only country in the world that uses mm/dd/yy in civilian text and sometimes it is used by Canada when talking to people from the US who can't convert to a real date format and a few others, mostly middle east use M/DD/YY on occaisions rather than mm/dd/yy where single M is alphabetic rather than numeric. The Department of State and the Department of Defense (and NATO) timestamp their reports and messages with text date-time-group formatted as DDHHMM(X) MMMYY, where DD represents the 2-digit day of the month, HHMM is 24-hour time, X is an alphabetic character that indicates the time zone (ideally this should be Z for "Zulu Time" in UTC to avoid misunderstandings about the time and day, but L for "local time" may also be used), MMM is the abbreviated month, and YY is the last two digits of the year. For example, 091630(Z) JUL 11 represents 16:30 UTC on 9 July 2011.[6] The DDHHMMZ format is also used worldwide in aviation meteorology for timestamps in METAR and TAF weather reports (month and year are omitted altogether due to very limited validity of these reports). Only a non-military person in the USA would favour mm/dd/yy. The ISO standard is dd/mm/yy as well. For clarity please reference the following for civilian time formats.... Edited July 5, 2018 by Moria15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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