| Marvin_ | hey there Canadians | 10:04 |
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| BluesKaj | Hi all | 11:34 |
| Marvin_ | hey there | 13:04 |
| Marvin_ | i have some quick questions | 13:04 |
| BluesKaj | Marvin_, best to ask in #ubuntu | 13:07 |
| Marvin_ | it's Canada-related XD | 13:07 |
| BluesKaj | ok Marvin_ ..what are your questions ? | 13:35 |
| Marvin_ | what is the most prevalent? 12 hour or 24 hour clocks? | 13:36 |
| Marvin_ | as well as in writing and speech | 13:36 |
| BluesKaj | 12 hr mostly | 13:36 |
| BluesKaj | AM:PM | 13:37 |
| Marvin_ | and date format? | 13:37 |
| Marvin_ | (the canadian locale on my computer shows 23 September) | 13:37 |
| BluesKaj | we use both month day yr, and day month yr ...confusing at times | 13:38 |
| Marvin_ | I see | 13:38 |
| Marvin_ | colour or colour? | 13:39 |
| BluesKaj | my date shows yr/month/day in the panel | 13:39 |
| Marvin_ | i mean color or colour lol | 13:39 |
| Marvin_ | that's the ISO standard yes :) | 13:39 |
| BluesKaj | colour mostly | 13:39 |
| Marvin_ | ok | 13:40 |
| Marvin_ | metric or US system? | 13:40 |
| BluesKaj | Ilike the ISO std .it would solve some problems here | 13:41 |
| Marvin_ | :P | 13:41 |
| BluesKaj | metric is official in Canada , altho we still use the british imperial measure which used to be the std til 1976 | 13:41 |
| BluesKaj | not us gals etc ...if it's us measure then it's specified | 13:42 |
| BluesKaj | err US | 13:42 |
| Marvin_ | ok | 13:43 |
| BluesKaj | US gal is 128oz , British/Canadian is 160 oz ...just as an example | 13:45 |
| Marvin_ | wow :O | 13:48 |
| BluesKaj | Marvin_, but all measure is metric in retail stores, fuel stations etc ...I'm used to all 3 measures since I worked in a Lab for 32 yrs and we were constantly doing conversions | 13:48 |
| Marvin_ | ok lol | 13:49 |
| Marvin_ | so, 12h, all date formats, Canadian spelling, metric, anything else I forgot? | 13:49 |
| BluesKaj | we were so used to doing them , that we could do quick calcs in our heads for estaimates etc | 13:50 |
| BluesKaj | I can't think of anything to add right now , but if you encounter something . just ask :) | 13:52 |
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| Marvin_ | BluesKaj: you there? | 16:09 |
| dscassel_ | Marvin_: I think the official Canadian standard is to use ISO dates. But it's not terribly common. | 17:05 |
| dscassel_ | I can never remember if the British or American format is more common. I hate both of them. | 17:05 |
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| dscassel | Also, time depends a little bit on province. Quebec uses french 23h00 format. | 17:07 |
| dscassel | Also, Canadian spelling is a weird mix of US and Britain. Colour but realize. | 17:09 |
| Marvin_ | dscassel: | 18:24 |
| Marvin_ | I use YYYY-MM-DD to avoid confusion when communicating with americans and europeans | 18:25 |
| dscassel | Excellent. :) | 18:26 |
| Marvin_ | when i set my mac to use the canadian locale, it switches the date to 23 Sep | 18:26 |
| dscassel | Yeah, Ubuntu as well. | 18:27 |
| Marvin_ | so i think when you write it out, you have to use day-month-year though | 18:27 |
| Marvin_ | yeah, so not Sep 23 (the american way) | 18:27 |
| Marvin_ | I chose US English though since that's more common | 18:27 |
| Marvin_ | and went with 12h for the clock | 18:28 |
| Marvin_ | so I conform to all canadian settings except for the spelling, which i hope you understand | 18:29 |
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