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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For speaking or writing it out going month then day feels natural, although I know it’s a regional thing. If you’re going number format, it should always go smallest to largest (DD-MM-YYYY) or largest to smallest (YYYY-MM-DD). For file names, definitely the latter so you can sort by alphabetical and everything is in order.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For speaking or writing it out going month then day feels natural

Yes, of course. Go to google translate and type in october 2nd 2023. Change the target language.

Yes, yes. Feet, miles, liquid miles, solid football fields and other nonsense also feels natural.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

As an American Engineer, the US measurement system disgusts me. The rest of the world uses SI, but my entire industry (and most of the US) uses the English system still and I absolutely hate it. Converting from ft to inches, or BTUs and tons, cubic feet, etc. Our lazy asses haven't joined the rest of the world yet. I wish we would just force the change and get over it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

2nd of October seems the same as intuitive as October 2nd to me.

For whatever reason, I know that one mile is 1760 yards or 5280 feet, but difficulty comes when doing anything with those numbers (e.g. How many yards in 5.2 miles? How many meters in 5.2 km? One is definitely easier to do). Maybe my chosen vocation of Engineering means I encounter unit conversions more frequently than most people. I dislike the weird combination of gauge vs 1/xths of an inch that pops up time to time (drill and screw diameters). I don't see how one mile is more intuitive than one kilometre as a distance.

I'm not sure about the meter vs yard, they are almost the same in terms of intuitiveness as well as actual value.

I just took a measurement of my fingers and my little finger nail is about a cm wide and my foreknuckle and index knuckle separation is about an inch.

I use inches in wargaming because I grew up with warhammer miniatures which classically come on 25 mm bases, though they're switching to 30 mm to increase the size of infantry miniatures. At a certain point there's a balance between battlefield resolution and readability, which 25 mm bases seem fine for.

Weights are even more baffling. I think I know what an ounce is, but I hate trying to multiply it out when Americans say something is 14 ounces or something.

I know what pints are because of beer.

Temperature is annoying for both because you have to find the little symbol not present on my keyboard.