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[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

Every day I thank god the americans at least use the same time units as everyone else

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Except it's nearly always a 12 hour clock :/

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

The French did try out decimal time, but it never took.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Feel free to switch to metric time if you want. Then you can complain that Americans are still stuck on the old system.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Every time I see this comic I can't help but notice "20130227" among discouraged formats which is actually a valid date per mentioned standard.

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

There’s no separating dashes.

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

Yeah and that is valid for ISO8601

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I feel like there are argument for and against. I think people just gotta do it and see whether others pick it up

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

American here: I find this offensive. This is clearly not an actual, functioning firearm, very unrealistic.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's a bubble gun.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

YYYY/MM/DD hhmm, 24 hour clock gang unite!

(We also support our YYYY.MM.DD and YYYYMMDD compatriots)

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

YYYY-MM-DD is what most filename formats and sorting algorithms prefer.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I don't care what the separating character is, so long as there is one and a numerical sort will arrange dates in chronological order. =D

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

YYYY.MM.DD

Hyphens are overrated

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

YYYY年MM月DD日

embrace the sinographic way.

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

built in reminder of what each number means too!

unfortunately I prefer 月火水木 over 星期一二三 which is a little less logical but also relates to European names and is more compact

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

Hyphens for phone numbers

Skip the dots for dates, or optional hyphens

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

ISO-8601 exists for a reason and is better.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

You can say the same thing about the imperial system

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But space is so much cooler in the imperial system

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

The Mars Climate Orbiter is what happens IRL when space even touches the imperial system.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-climate-orbiter/

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

So in the US if you are telling someone a date you say something like 'June 5Th' (year is optional if in current year). How would people in other countries say it?

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

5th of June, or even still June 5th, because it doesn't have to match the order of the date format.

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

Also in all other languages where I know how to say the date it's some form of 5th (day of) June. While it is possible to have it the other way around it's really only found in old writings (June's 5th day).

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

5th of June or June 5th, both are valid. However numeric date format has little to do with how it's said. yyyy-MM-dd (and seperator variants) has the benefit of being orderable and indexable chronologically.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

June 5th or the 5th of June

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Here we say 5 June

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"Fifth June" in German.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That pistol looks like a repainted Skippy from Cyberpunk 2077

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

Except for the US military (unless it's changed in the last 20 years). We used 19 May 2024.

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

The maximum number of numbers for months is 12, the maximum number of days is 30 and years is infinite. Mathematically, it makes sense.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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