• @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    How about March Fourteenth as “American PI-Day” and 22.07. as “international, sensible and widely understood PI-Day”, each according to the used date format?

        • @[email protected]
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          65 months ago

          DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that’s a superior format.

          • @Semjaza
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            25 months ago

            Also the date format used organically in East Asia because of the cultural habit of writing big to small.

            English tends small to big, so I don’t know where yanks got their date format from.

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              25 months ago

              Can you elaborate on that last part? I fail to think of anything where its natural for English to go from small units to big units.

              • @Semjaza
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                35 months ago

                Addresses is the main one.

                But also when talking about objects and categories, e.g. “the oak is a type of tree”, not “trees have a type which is oak”.