When I’m reading through dates, January gives me a hell of a lot more information than “the fifteenth”
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YoorWeb@lemmy.world 7 months agowhoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
moriquende@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Then use ISO and start with the year, which gives you even more information.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Not necessarily. I work outdoors, the month gives extremely important seasonal context. “A July” tells more than “1985”… although realistically I need both for any conceivable purpose.
moriquende@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Also, to be honest, reading dates is not a difficult process. It takes less than a second regardless of whether it starts with a month, a day, or a year. It’s not worth to use that as the basis of discussion. Imo, having the numbers be logically sorted from biggest to smallest unit (or reverse) is worth it just to avoid the confusion.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Maybe someday a metric country will take 13th place for walking on the moon
OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Guess which system NASA uses
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I refuse
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Chuckled at this. Well done
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Pre- or post- Mars orbiter?
OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well they did for the moon landing, and have as a policy since 1979.
I didn’t know about why that orbiter failed though, pretty funny!
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It is worth pointing out though that NASA employees use imperial units in their everyday lives. Using both systems may have given US scientists and engineers a competitive advantage over European scientists and engineers.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That burn was out of this world