Comment on The perfect date

• dantel@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Say when is that independence day of yours?

  There is nothing ‘natural’ about mm/dd/yy, it is just what you are used to - end of story.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What you are used to inevitably becomes more natural for you subjectively…

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  • BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I knew I would eat shit for that comment.

    July 4th is a funny example cause you can say “the 4th” and everyone knows what you mean, but people also say “4th of July” to give it more importance.

    That’s a lot less common for other dates, Americans aren’t commonly dating 25th of December.

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    • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I always feel like rolling my eyes whilst Americans slowly drawl the month at me before telling me the day of the month I wanted

      “Dec…”

      Oh god, you’re American

      “…em…”

      Here we go, we’re going for it

      “…berrrrr”

      Yes, we’re getting there

      “…rrrrrrr”

      Hopefully we get to the date, or I’m going to have to ask someone else

      [inhales]

      Why did it have to be an American

      “Twenty….”

      Please not the year

      “…-seventh”

      Hallelujah, thank the lord, we have a date. Oh Jesus, why such an ordeal. So much time for stupid intrusive thoughts. What was it again…?

      Admittedly like most of this is my failings as a person

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• Quokka@quokk.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  dd-mm feels completely natural to say in conversation. “Do you want to go to a X with me on the 3rd of August”

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Does “August 3rd” sound unnatural to you?

    In spoken conversation it doesn’t really matter. In many contexts you could probably just say “Want to go on the third?” and the person you’re talking to will understand you mean August the third of this current year.

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    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It does to me. mm-dd is not used at all in my native language and would be considered grammatically incorrect. Since English doesn’t prescribe it I have no reason to fully accept it.

      Note that I still prefer to write ISO 8601 dates but my spoken dates are big-endian.

      Middle-endian dates like “June 15th 2046” are just bad, of course.

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      • recursivethinking@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I commented earlier that having to say more words is inefficient, but what yiu said made me think… In other languages I know, it’s basically spoken as "3rd August’… Eliminating the inefficiency. It’s really more English’s general inefficiency that irks me, more so than the order of the dates lol

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  • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But… what YEAR???

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  • recursivethinking@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its fine but its unnecessarily long. Its just one syllable/word but its extra.

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    • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Two words when used in a sentence. “The 4th of August” vs “August 4th”

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      • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I feel like you would only say “of August” if someone is staring at you in abject horror completely untethered from the time stream

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• bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I absolutely full out dates in iso 8601 any time I’m required to sign a form.

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I like your style. I’ll start doing that, (unless a format is specified, because I’m no protocol breaker.)

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• lena@gregtech.eu ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes (I’m insane)

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  • Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes as well (Also insane) but its universally ledgable, sorts on computers easier, accomodates timezones and sub-second units. ISO-8601 should be the universal standard, and anyone who says otherwise better show up with a white paper explaining why. None of this dumb american format or javascript web form bullshit, language is about specificity, BE SPECIFIC. Unless you want to go off the rails and talk about relativity, time dialation and reference points… But thats all above my pay grade. ISO-8601 is a golden example of “good enough for normal people”. Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk.

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• laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, kind of.

  I shorthand it verbally unless I’m giving a full date, but typed, it’s almost always yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss (whichever part of that is relevant).

  I do this because I believe it’s the most logical, it sorts properly without having to use a datetime library, and it can’t be confused with another system (is 12-1-2026 in the future or the past? No way to know just by looking at it).

  Just shortening it to MM-dd could cause confusion with anyone not in the US so I’ll typically include the year as well (also useful if I wind up having to look at old notes or emails to not have to figure out the year I meant … Which has happened more than once …)

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• lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only a truly insane person would use mm-dd-yy in conversation. “Want to go to a hockey game with me ten seventeen twenty-six?” Or worse, “…oh four oh seven twenty-seven.” Pure madness.

  Conversationally, mmm d yy or d mmm yy (usually just shortened to mmm d or d mmm) is where it’s at.

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• Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s no reason the two need to be the same. We don’t talk in heximal either

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