If the date format is not YYYY-MM-DD it can fuck right off.
ISO 8601. Unironically the only ISO number I also remember.
Long live I-SO! I-SO! I-SO!
I also remember as PHP programming language still won’t do it with this function: DateTimeInterface::ISO8601 DATE_ISO8601 https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetimeinterface.php#datetime.constants.iso8601
You need the DateTimeInterface::ISO8601_EXPANDED which can actually accept non compliant strings too.
PHP - wherever you see an intuitive solution it’s wrong or has important caveats.
My favorite thing about this date format is using it in file names. Sorting the files by name also sorts them by date.
Meeting notes 2023-06-29.txt Meeting notes 2023-06-30.txt Meeting notes 2023-07-01.txt
I know that they use that format in daily life in Asia but to me it’s the “computer format” for this exact reason.
Thi is the way.
Getting people to adopt to this in large projects is soooo difficult but it provides soooo much benefit :/
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2023rd of July. Duh
In year 4
Everything is right about it:
- Lexographic sort
- Unambiguous months and days
- Acceptable on any document of record (lab, legal, medical, personal)
- Readable by nearly any culture (even us Americans)
for storing dates it’s awesome, for displaying dates it’s time to teach your programmer how to format shit for humans.
It actually is the best for displaying all-number dates to people as well because no one in their right mind will ever do yyyy-dd-mm.
So if you see the year first, you know the format. When the year is last and you see a date like 03-02-2023, you have to take into account the nationality of the author to know if it’s March 2nd or February 3rd.
But 2023-02-03 it becomes clear that it’s February 3rd.
I can’t even comprehend how dumb this image is.
100 feet in 0.27373616263 fence posts
Doesn’t that make you dumber than the image?
My brain hurt reading it lol
Now this is the kind of shitposting I can get behind.
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I actually agree that the metric system has nice round numbers, but this graphic is a hilarious rebuttal to the first one that just draws pictures to make their preferred system look like it fits into the pretty pictures.
Two can play at that game, lol.
Eh… The graph shows
“Inches in 8.33 feet”, and those 3’s will go on forever like 8.333333333333…
Its clearly meant to be a shitpost.
It’s actually interesting, an inch is the last knuckle of your thumb, a foot is your foot, a yard is one pace (left right left) a mile is 1000 paces
But for some reason when we standardized them so everyone’s mile would be the same distance, we used a freaking giant.
Then pirates kept us from adopting the metric system
Fuck yeah. Because 100 being the temperature of a random woman measured during her menstrual cycle totally makes sense.
Ey! It was the blood temperature of a horse before that, okay?! So it’s not as if there were no improvements made at all! /s
This is cursed. I love it
I love the mental gymnastics which have gone into the making of this infographic. Gold!
I like that every bar has a different scaling.
It’s an imperial log scale
How long do you have to sit on the toilet to produce one of those imperial logs?
You have to NOT sit on the toilet for 3 days
That’s when you need to bring out the poop axe, because the poop knife just won’t cut it
Thanks! I hate it.
But in all honesty, this is almost like being inside a Canadian’s brain. I have to translate back and forth at work all the time, and even cooking involves converting things back and forth. I have no idea how many drams to a gallon, so I’ll convert ounces to mL, then scale as necessary, and then convert back to US customary because the measuring cups and spoons are labelled in American.
Same, as a Canadian I wish we just had everything in metric instead of 70% of things. If systems of units were money, metric would be paying with dollars and cents, while imperial is paying with sheep and bars of gold.
I also hate that we are loosey goosey with date formats. What day is 07/08/23??? I hate that the US uses MM/DD/YY format but at least they are consistent about it.
That’s either July 8, or August 7th. Depending on… Well. What whoever was writing it meant 😁
If systems of units were money, metric would be paying with dollars and cents, while imperial is paying with sheep and bars of gold.
😆 I’m totally stealing this.
In that case, sign me up for an imperial monetary system, that sounds awesome.
You had me at sheep.
It’s like we’re in a weird limbo between the two. Metric for distance, except height which is in feet and inches. Grams for weight, except for human weight it’s pounds (or sometimes not). Celsius for temperatures, but ovens use farenheight. Just pick one goddammit!
I am curious, what are you doing where you need to convert drams to gallons? Making mixed whiskey?
I’ve actually done this a a lot for work needing to work out operating weights of mechanical equipment and checking existing structures for capacity etc. American equipment with all imperial info and Canadian building design. It’s easy to convert, but still annoying.
Measuring cups and spoons is probably my worst international pet peeve. I do not understand why please? Why not measure with a scale like every sane being?
This picture gives me conniptions
conniptions
I had to look that one up, thank you for giving me the new word of the day!
con·nip·tion kə-ˈnip-shən. : a fit of rage, hysteria, or alarm
Nice shitpost, op
Don’t Americans normally say “4th of July”?
Only when referring to July 4th.
I may be in the minority but I tend to say “Fourth of July” to refer to the holiday but “July fourth” to refer to the date when not referencing the holiday.
“The 4th of May be with you”
Yes but only for the Fourth of July. Any other day is reversed.
I thought this post was funny until I read the comments.
I actually like fahrenheit for weather. 0 is really fucking cold, 100 is really fucking hot.
Works for Celsius as well. 0°C is damn cold, and 100°C is damn hot weather.
Swede here, 0 C is not particularly cold
“is this summer?”
Northern Mexico here. 0 C is literally freezing cold. I would be so bundled up in jackets. We got up to about 44 C today, though, to be fair. I imagine you would be oppositely uncomfortable in that.
Swede in Oaxaca att the moment. 0 C we would put on a jacket, but something that is often missed is that we later go in and warm up. Many Mexican houses are not built to keep the cold out. I spent a couple of winter weeks in Toluca a few years ago and the nights was freaking cold. The concrete walls store the cold as ice blocks and there’s no heaters or radiators.
Yes, 44 would definitely be uncomfortable. Even 30 would be uncomfortable really.
I guess I didn’t account for climate change getting quite that bad
I have always hated this argument. If that were the case, then 50 would be the most comfortable temperature and it’s not. This scale is about 20 degrees off since most everybody prefers a temperature of about 70 F.
That makes the assumption that comfortable is at the center of weather patterns (which is what fahrenheit was made to describe), and there’s no real reason that that would be the case. The average temperature worldwide is in the 50’s, not in the 70’s. Likewise, 0° F is more similar frequency to 100° F than it is to 140° F, which tends to be an extreme only for the hottest places on earth. 50°-ish is the center of the temperature scale, it’s just that most people prefer temperatures that are abnormally warm
But that’s the same argument that people use against Celsius: “the freezing and boiling points of water is an arbitrary scale, I prefer Fahrenheit because it’s more human centric” (Even though it’s not). What you’re saying is equally as arbitrary, the average temperatures of the planet as a whole is still not a human centric frame of reference.
for now
Well… that goes for Celsius, too :P
Both are confusing. Let’s use colours instead:
Red = hot, wear shorts and a t shirt
Blue = cold, grab a jacket
Pretty intuitive without any prior knowledge.
Yeah until u gotta tell the difference between plum violet and purple to decide if you wear shorts and a jacket or pants and a tank top
If it is 0 F° or 0 C° and tomorrow it’s double as cold, how cold is it?
Neither Celsius nor Fahrenheit make rational sense. The numbers are just for fun in these scales. Kelvin is the only good choice.
I’m a Brit so am pretty bilingual when it come to weights and measures. However Fahrenheit just gives me a headache.
Plus Fahrenheit gives you more increments of degrees within a given range.
Ever heard of decimals?
Our thermostats haven’t. I really don’t understand it - it can’t possibly be more expensive to make, the cheapest of parts can give you better than tenths of a degree, just give us half degrees and we wouldn’t even need another button.
Half of them use touch screens anyways! How are you going to give us WiFi on them while making them less adjustable than a 55 year old analog one?? I can set the freaking background and send messages to them from the other side of the world, but there’s not even a hidden option for fine adjustment.
Having thermostats with sub-degree values actually doesn’t make a lot of sense since the temperature within a room fluctuates by a few degrees between the hottest and the coldest spot. Hence setting target temperatures with higher accuracy is as accurate as measuring micron-accurate distances by eye.
“Yeah, I can totally see that this is 2154 microns long. I can see that from across the room!”
My thermostat has .5 degrees
Don’t worry. It’ll roll out for $9.99 a month. Give them time.
“Base 12” is nice because it is easy to divide into halves, quarters, thirds as whole numbers. The rest is a bit of a mess though, I guess.
Base12 Units would be much more useful if we used Base12 numbers
