Coincidence? Beijing Apple Store phone# references Tiananmen Sq. date (6-4-1989)
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Re: Coincidence? Beijing Apple Store phone# references Tiananmen Sq. date (6-4-1989)
#2It will be interesting to find out what modern Chinese people know and think of Tiananmen Sq. events.
Re: Coincidence? Beijing Apple Store phone# references Tiananmen Sq. date (6-4-1989)
#3They use a different date format in China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_R...
It probably wouldn't be recognized by most people as the date of the Tiananmen Sq date (to be honest, to me it looks like 6 April 1989, so it's only signifgant if you write dates the way you write dates)
Re: Coincidence? Beijing Apple Store phone# references Tiananmen Sq. date (6-4-1989)
#4Of course it is; it's just our minds looking for patterns.
Re: Coincidence? Beijing Apple Store phone# references Tiananmen Sq. date (6-4-1989)
#5They use a different date format in China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_R... It probably wouldn't be recognized by most people as the date of the Tiananmen Sq date (to be honest, to me it looks like 6 April 1989, so it's only signifgant if you write dates the way you write dates)
That doesn't necessarily mean it's just a coincidence, though. The phone number may very well have been chosen by an American. Apple is big on central management, after all.
Re: Coincidence? Beijing Apple Store phone# references Tiananmen Sq. date (6-4-1989)
#6In other non-news the Chinese takeaway on Main Street, Kent has 5-4-1970
Re: Coincidence? Beijing Apple Store phone# references Tiananmen Sq. date (6-4-1989)
#7They use a different date format in China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_R... It probably wouldn't be recognized by most people as the date of the Tiananmen Sq date (to be honest, to me it looks like 6 April 1989, so it's only signifgant if you write dates the way you write dates)
The event is referred to as the "6-4 incident" in Chinese (六四事件), so the month-day order is correct. Generally the year is listed first in full dates (e.g., 1989年6月4日), but it's arguably still recognizable when it occurs afterwards.
[edit] Addendum: BTW, I just noticed the link you supplied refers to the Republic of China, which is the de facto government in Taiwan currently and is different from the People's Republic of China, which is what most people refer to as "China". The PRC follows the regular Gregorian calendar in YYYY-MM-DD format.
Re: Coincidence? Beijing Apple Store phone# references Tiananmen Sq. date (6-4-1989)
#8They use a different date format in China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_R... It probably wouldn't be recognized by most people as the date of the Tiananmen Sq date (to be honest, to me it looks like 6 April 1989, so it's only signifgant if you write dates the way you write dates)
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Re: Coincidence? Beijing Apple Store phone# references Tiananmen Sq. date (6-4-1989)
#9It will be interesting to find out what modern Chinese people know and think of Tiananmen Sq. events.
I've had several international student friends from China. One of them, when they first arrived, gobble up all the information that was censored in China. E.g. taiwan, tiananmen, tibet, etc. And now hates the Communist party to the guts. Then there is another one who said Tiananmen was unfortunate... but it was "necessary"; That one also praised Jiang Zemin on modernising the economy, and told me to focus on that instead.
Re: Coincidence? Beijing Apple Store phone# references Tiananmen Sq. date (6-4-1989)
#10Well, if it isn't a coincidence, someone's certainly going to get in trouble if we keep shouting about it.
Also I could see this thread getting HN blocked over there too.