Off topic: ProZ.com stole my birthday Thread poster: Russell Jones
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Russell Jones 
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:37
Italian to English
Exploring the nooks and crannies of my new profile pages, I was taken aback to find my birthdate, in the Basic Profile, given as 11 May.
Now, as I reach a milestone (or maybe a last staging post) on Sunday and am somewhat reluctantly being made to celebrate, this was most disconcerting.
It came to me - delayed response - I must be getting old; 11-5 instead of 5-11!
From the tragic events of September 2001, we all know that the date format in the US is dif... See more Exploring the nooks and crannies of my new profile pages, I was taken aback to find my birthdate, in the Basic Profile, given as 11 May.
Now, as I reach a milestone (or maybe a last staging post) on Sunday and am somewhat reluctantly being made to celebrate, this was most disconcerting.
It came to me - delayed response - I must be getting old; 11-5 instead of 5-11!
From the tragic events of September 2001, we all know that the date format in the US is different from everywhere else - isn't it?
But surely ProZ.com is an international site!
Wikipedia tells us, about date formats:
Middle endian (11-05-2006): used in the United States and countries with U.S. influence.
Little endian (5-11-2006): common to the vast majority of the world's countries, and the accepted international date usage.
(It also has what I guess Henry & Co. would give me as an answer:
Big endian (2006-11-5): the ISO 8601 International formal standard - but I'm going to ignore that, my birthday my privilege!) ▲ Collapse
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| that sounded so sad, Russell! | Nov 3, 2006 |
Happy birthday anyway - 30th, is it?
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| what can I say.... | Nov 3, 2006 |
HAPPY FORTHCOMING BIRTHDAY Russell!
Maybe the support team will be able to solve the problem before your birthday.
And whatever your milestone age is .... MAY YOU CELEBRATE IT IN THE HAPPIEST WAY EVER!
Cheers
Liliana
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texjax DDS PhD
Local time: 12:37
Member (2006)
English to Italian
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| Buon Compleanno! | Nov 3, 2006 |
Buon Compleanno Russell!
I enclose this for you, Happy Birthday in 161 languages, with my best wishes.
http://www.shabbir.com/romance/bday.html
Aggiungo un augurio nella 162esima:
A prus de kent'annos!
[Edited at 2006-11-03 22:43]
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Russell Jones
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:37
Italian to English
TOPIC STARTER
Marie-Helene, Liliana e Texjax
Have a good weekend (and apologies to the adopted statunitensi if my comments on American date formats sounded at all inflammatory - it was tongue in cheek).
Russell
[Edited at 2006-11-04 10:10]
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 18:37
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| Where's my birth date? | Nov 4, 2006 |
Russell Jones wrote:
Exploring the nooks and crannies of my new profile pages, I was taken aback to find my birthdate, in the Basic Profile, given as 11 May.
I can't find my birth date on my basic profile... where can I see it?
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Marta Fernandez-Suarez (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:37
English to Spanish
Hi Samuel
It is in Settings>Basic Profile
Regards
Marta
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Clarisa Moraña
United States
Local time: 11:37
Member (2002)
English to Spanish
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| Happy birthday, Russell!!! | Nov 4, 2006 |
And thanks for leading me to this nice feature at proz. I ignored that we can add our birthday date. But the months were in written format (not number), thus there was no way of confussion. Perhaps when you inicially entered your birthdate, the format was middle endian and you didn't know about it.
Regards
Clarisa Moraña
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Agnieszka Hayward (X)
Poland
Local time: 18:37
German to Polish
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| Happy birthday, Russell | Nov 4, 2006 |
wszystkiego najlepszego! [fshystkyego naylepshego] = all the best
Regards,
A
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