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[โ€“] 65 points 1 year ago (4 children)

All dates should be formatted according to ISO 8601 standard (YYYY-MM-DD).

Months should be adjusted so September, October, November, and December are the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th month respectively (so the literally meaning of the names accords with their actual meaning).

Not cleaning your kitchen knife after sharpening is trashy and contaminates your food with metal shavings.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Months should be adjusted so September, October, November, and December are the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th month respectively

    Back of the line, Julius and Augustus.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Related: 12-hour AM/PM time, at least in written language, is dumb compared to 24-hour time. I don't want to have to infer from context if 8 is morning or evening. Build that disambiguation into the written time, ffs!

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    yes!! I'm a fan of 24-hour time, though we should honestly switch to metric time, I think we're at least a second French revolution away from that happening ๐Ÿ˜…

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Still working on wrapping my mind around that.

    That said, I have wrapped my mind around 10-day weeks, which in work division work as follows:
    โš’๏ธโš’๏ธ๐Ÿ›‹๏ธโš’๏ธโš’๏ธ๐Ÿ›‹๏ธโš’๏ธโš’๏ธ๐Ÿ›‹๏ธ๐Ÿ›‹๏ธ
    Do this 12 times in a year, add a leap day every three months, say to start each season, plus another extra day for new year's, and another extra according to existing leap year rules.

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • The English word comes from Latin, septem = 7, membris or mens = month (like menstruation).

    In the Roman calendar the months are:

    1. March
    2. February
    3. May
    4. June
    5. July
    6. August
    7. September
    8. October
    9. November
    10. December

    So the order of the months was more logical, and a Roman would naturally understand that September, October, November, and December read as literally the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth month respectively.

    I basically constantly have to manually correct myself over and over that for example September is the 9th month, to look for the number 9 even though when I read "September" I am reading "seventh month" and my brain automatically wants to look for 7.

    I think most people would not relate to my experience of the months let alone how upsetting this is to me, hence I consider it a "small hill" to die on, lol. But it's a very big hill in my world!

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