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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish66•edit-22 months agoHow about March Fourteenth as “American PI-Day” and 22.07. as “international, sensible and widely understood PI-Day”, each according to the used date format?
minus-square@[email protected]OPMlinkfedilinkEnglish19•2 months agoA third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•2 months ago22/07 is already known as “Pi Approximation Day”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-4•2 months agoImagine acting superior about a date format.
minus-square@repungnant_canarylinkEnglish8•2 months agoNo need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoDD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that’s a superior format.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoAlso the date format used organically in East Asia because of the cultural habit of writing big to small. English tends small to big, so I don’t know where yanks got their date format from.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoCan you elaborate on that last part? I fail to think of anything where its natural for English to go from small units to big units.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoAddresses is the main one. But also when talking about objects and categories, e.g. “the oak is a type of tree”, not “trees have a type which is oak”.
How about March Fourteenth as “American PI-Day” and 22.07. as “international, sensible and widely understood PI-Day”, each according to the used date format?
A third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.
22/07 is already known as “Pi Approximation Day”
“widely understood” maybe in certain circles hehe
Imagine acting superior about a date format.
No need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior
DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that’s a superior format.
Also the date format used organically in East Asia because of the cultural habit of writing big to small.
English tends small to big, so I don’t know where yanks got their date format from.
Can you elaborate on that last part? I fail to think of anything where its natural for English to go from small units to big units.
Addresses is the main one.
But also when talking about objects and categories, e.g. “the oak is a type of tree”, not “trees have a type which is oak”.
Great examples! Thanks!