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minus-square@death_to_carrots@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglish78•edit-21 year 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@fossilesque@mander.xyzOPMlinkfedilinkEnglish20•1 year agoA third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.
minus-square@Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year ago22/07 is already known as “Pi Approximation Day”
minus-square@FryHyde@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoImagine acting superior about a date format.
minus-square@repungnant_canary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agoNo need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior
minus-square@Shareni@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoDD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that’s a superior format.
minus-square@Semjaza@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year 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@dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year 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@Semjaza@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year 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”.
minus-square@lmaydev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year ago“widely understood” maybe in certain circles hehe
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”
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!
“widely understood” maybe in certain circles hehe