Cold War GB 2018 Inspiration

[scooter]

Going through old pics on Photobucket I found a few old builds that fit the timeframe and theme...maybe this is a good place to post them...

http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,45069.0.html

RN Sea Jaguar FRS.1

You meant it as a url and not a pic, right?

[AeroplaneDriver]

It was supposed to be a pic.  Not sure why it didn't load. 

[scooter]

It was supposed to be a pic.  Not sure why it didn't load.

Tags and url.  It happens.

[zenrat]

DEADLINE EXTENDED BY ONE WEEK
In light of Weaver's recent family bereavement please direct any final questions, issues and requests for an extension (accompanied by the appropriate bribe) to me rather than to him.

[zenrat]

Due to request received, deadline is hereby extended to local midnight Friday 07-06-18.

[Old Wombat]

You need to fix your banner!

[zenrat]

Sorted.

[AeroplaneDriver]

Due to request received, deadline is hereby extended to local midnight Friday 07-06-18.

So June 7th or July 6th?  June 7th isn't a Friday, July 6 is.  A month seems like quite a long extension...

[zenrat]

7th June obviously. 
But this got me wondering.  So let me quote from here.

We have all encountered the stupid way Americans write their dates, putting the months first. Now we answer the eternal question.
IT'S a question that's been bothering us since last Wednesday when the world witnessed 11/12/13, one of the few dates of our time with consecutive numbers.
The Yanks butchered it. To them, it was 12/11/13.
The United States is the only nation in the world which insists on dates laid out as mm-dd-yyyy, although it is used occasionally in some other countries, including Canada and the Philippines.
The historical reasons for the unusual date format are foggy -- but there are compelling explanations.
America inherited the months-first dates from the United Kingdom where it was occasionally used until the early 20th century, according to Reddit.
American colonists favoured the monthly format, while the British Empire drifted towards the European style of dd-mm-yyyy.
The American format did not cause as much confusion as the date was usually written out in full. So December 18, 2013, would be today.
But the digital era made it necessary for dates to be explained with numbers, such as 12/18/2013.
America stuck with mm-dd-yyyy while the rest of the world moved to a more logical format.
There is a third way, though: The US military, China, Japan and the Korean nations follow a different convention. The International Standardisation Organisation has set yyyy-mm-dd as the internationally accepted way to represent time and date.
It moves from the biggest unit of time (years) to the smallest (days). Perhaps even we could be more correct in how we arrange our dates.

Which doesn't actually clear things up does it.

[Knightflyer]

There is a third way, though: The US military, China, Japan and the Korean nations follow a different convention. The International Standardisation Organisation has set yyyy-mm-dd as the internationally accepted way to represent time and date.
It moves from the biggest unit of time (years) to the smallest (days). Perhaps even we could be more correct in how we arrange our dates.[/i]

Which doesn't actually clear things up does it.

Slight thread drift. I must admit to using the above format yyyy-mm-dd or at least yy-mm-dd quite a lot. For work I have to save spreadsheet of test results once a week, and putting the date in this format in the title allows them to be sorted in date order .... whereas the company who supplies me the results tells me that 23/1/18 (23rd Jan)  23/2/18 (23rd Feb) and THEN  24/1/18 (24th Jan) are consecutive! 

Mind you - would we then need to think about how we SAY the date, forgetting the year, is it June 2nd or 2nd (of) June (first 'American', second 'British'?)

[scooter]

Let's just go to Abrams Trek Stardating- year and Julian calendar day, and just ditch the Gregorian calendar altogether. 

[zenrat]

As long as we don't go to Roddenbury star dates.  I can never work them out.

Do American Moslems also use MM/DD/YYYY?

[PR19_Kit]

I must admit to using the above format yyyy-mm-dd or at least yy-mm-dd quite a lot. For work I have to save spreadsheet of test results once a week, and putting the date in this format in the title allows them to be sorted in date order ....

Exactly! 

I use that system to title my digital photos, and even the folders in which they reside, as it automatically files them in date order, as does your spreadsheet.

[sandiego89]

I actually like the military way we often do it in the USA:  01 JUL 2018: 

All WHIF dates and Group Build dates/times should be something like:

Build starts on July 1, 2018, at 0001 wherever you are on the globe.

or Build starts on 01 July 2018, at 0001 wherever you are on the globe. 

Simples right?   

[NARSES2]

I think that's what we do basically ?

Must admit I can deal with most variants of dates but the US version throws me a bit. When I'm reading US published history books it can take a while, but then I just deal with it