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Time difference SJ, I get to open the new puzzle at around lunchtime here in Western Australia, a day ahead of you technically!

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It's 10:53 here

4.54pm Saturday 3 October

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So is it only in the US that the todays date is written 10/03/20?

In Aus and UK it would be 03/10/20

we usually write 03-10-2020

Anyway 3 October is a celebration day in the region because on that day in 1574 the city of Leiden was relieved from a long siege by the Spanish (see Sige of Leiden on wikipedia).

Was it another case of doing the opposite of the English? Bit like driving on the right (wrong side of the road of course!) Fortunately I grew up in the UK learning metric and the old imperial system. Strange to think how England and Australia have gone metric for around 50 years now, doesn't time fly

Bout time we all stopped invading each other really isn't it. We're all grown ups now!

I still hear most people use feet and inches for height but Kg for weight! in Oz, they still use Stones in the UK! Metric easiest to understand and teach, but the old inches, feet, yard all meant something before tape measures were invented.

Well, quite frankly the Spanish king "owned" most of Europe, and the Dutch were rebels.

Still are Mr O, although the world eventually catches up to what you dutch work out as common sense about 50 years later

The metric system was invented by the French after their evolution), so the British would never dream of adoping such a barbarious system...

Are we allowed to talk about things again as long as we stay out of American Politics? I'm getting bored!

So am I...

So what's happening in the land of Orange Mr O?

I've just been watching an amazing doco on regenerative farming. We've forgotten what we knew before the salesmen came to town!

Time to book a road trip. Can't fly of course but plenty to see in our own back yard, Think I'll do Perth to Shark Bay, 2 nights, then onto Exmouth for 2 nights, back to Coral bay for a leisurely 6 nights then a atop in at Kalbarri on the way home. It's about halfway up the state but still around 2500km round trip

Geez. And all on the wrong side of the road too!

Good job I gre up in England so hopped over to Europe often so now it's easy driving on both sides of the road.

Aw I said it's 3 Oct, and I will prepare a traditional meal for some friends. The traditional meal is mashed patatoes with carrots and onions, but I make a more refined version without the omions and the carrots. You could also say that it only shares the name with the original. "Hutspot"

Finals footie tonight, Eagles v the Pies, stadiums sadly still only half full cos of Covid but it'll be a pearler.

Sounds good MrO, but I reckon my beef curry was wonderful

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May I leap into the discussion belatedly? In the US, today’s date is written as 10/3/2020. Having spent some time in Europe,where they generally writ the date as 3/10/2020, I grew tired of trying to remember where I was, and which system I should use, so I invented my own. Today’s date is 3.X.2020. I would have thought that this was obvious, yet you’d be surprised at how many people are baffled. I was actually reprimanded at work.

On the pounds/grams discussion, I once read, decades ago (and bear in mind that I love to read outdated spy novels (E. Philip Oppenheimer, anyone.)), that a good way to catch a spy was to ask a question involving numbers. No matter how fluent one is in a foreign language, one returns to one’s native language for anything involving numbers. I’ve always wanted to check this out,but haven’t encountered any possible spys yet. Yet still,hope lives on.

jrs, it's not obvious to me. How could other people know whether the roman numeral represented the day or the month?

You’re right, aardvark. It was an assumption on my part that people would recognize that this Roman numeral was the month. Rats, so much for creating a universal writing for dates.

Not sure why people don't like Roman numerals, I, for one, love them. I like to count in Roman numerals, when I reach 159 it just CLIX.

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