▲ 542 ▼ Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging (www.theguardian.com) submitted 2 years ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/world@lemmy.world 87 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] prayer@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (3 children) Wikipedia says China uses Year, Month, Day exclusively, so they do place month before day. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Marsupial@quokk.au 22 points 2 years ago Oh shit yeah ISO 8601, that’s cool. Thought it was like the stupid M/D/Y thing. permalink fedilink source parent [–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Wow ok. Do they do that in practice? Like in Australia we measure everything in metric... except for all the things we measure in imperial. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago* Live in China, yes it's consistently applied. But they also spell it out, i.e. today's date would be 2023年10月4日 (year-month-day / nian-yue-ri), so the order is unmistakably. permalink fedilink source parent [–] hypelightfly@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago So one of the only countries that does it correctly. (Day Month Year is just as wrong as Month Day Year) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 22 points 2 years ago Oh shit yeah ISO 8601, that’s cool. Thought it was like the stupid M/D/Y thing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Wow ok. Do they do that in practice? Like in Australia we measure everything in metric... except for all the things we measure in imperial. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago* Live in China, yes it's consistently applied. But they also spell it out, i.e. today's date would be 2023年10月4日 (year-month-day / nian-yue-ri), so the order is unmistakably. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago* Live in China, yes it's consistently applied. But they also spell it out, i.e. today's date would be 2023年10月4日 (year-month-day / nian-yue-ri), so the order is unmistakably. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hypelightfly@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago So one of the only countries that does it correctly. (Day Month Year is just as wrong as Month Day Year) permalink fedilink source parent