• @towerful
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    759 months ago

    Americans confused at what month “27” is

      • @towerful
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        139 months ago

        ISO8601 all day, every day

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          89 months ago

          Which drives me nuts! The month doesn’t change for 4 whole weeks! Why is it first? I want the info that contains the most variation displayed first so my eyes don’t have to glaze past useless info every time.

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            69 months ago

            Year/month/day is superior when reading full dates, because it’s the least ambiguous. If I only need day and month, I’d rather use month’s full or shortened name (like 27 Sep). Ambiguity is the real enemy here, not any particular order

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                  29 months ago

                  I scanned through this and my takeaway is that it’s just defining a formal grammar for iso 8601. Did I miss anything important?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    19 months ago

                    Kind of. As I understand it, ISO-8601 is also super broad and allows for a bunch of different potential formats and I think durations.

                    For instance, 2009-W01-1 is a valid ISO-8601 date, meaning 2008-12-31(!) which is pretty weird.

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              29 months ago

              True, thats how my laptop displays the date. It never even mentions the month because I see that enough on other sources. I guess I just hate how month first is the default where I live more than anything. It perfectly sums up the subpar optimacy of the USA. Shit could be better, but its just not.

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                9 months ago

                ¿And don’t you hate how US punctuation is at the end? ¿If you read an entire sentence, but you don’t even know it is a question until you’re at the end, then how do you know which intonation to use? ¡English is subpar and something should be done about that!

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              29 months ago

              Year-Month-Day is also my go-to for naming files (at least in systems that don’t have file versioning) because it allows Name sort to list things chronologically. Just have every version of the same file have the same name, then append Year-Month-Day to the end.

              I work with a lot of bespoke systems that use proprietary files, so file versioning with something like Google Drive or OneDrive goes right out the window. But Year-Month-Day makes it easy to maintain some semblance of organization.

        • ElHexo [comrade/them]
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          29 months ago

          There’s no reason the written sequence needs to follow the verbal sequence.

          Obviously, because you’re not even writing 11th/5th/2023

      • RQG
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        39 months ago

        I just realized that September 7,Oktober 8, November 9 and December 10 is a thing. I feel a bit dumb now. Then I got mad cus it’s screwed up. Was it some Romans squeezing in extra months or something?

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            29 months ago

            I love the thought that January and February were so boring they didn’t even get names.

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      This is a reddit or even Twitter level shit comment. Please take your ignorant self back to either of those platforms. The dumb American trope is overused, largely inaccurate, and tired. Steal some new material from someone more witty and try again.

    • Destide
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      29 months ago

      I don’t understand it they go through the same Bumtober as the rest of us