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 1 year agowhoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
moriquende@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Then use ISO and start with the year, which gives you even more information.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Maybe someday a metric country will take 13th place for walking on the moon
OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Guess which system NASA uses
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I refuse
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Chuckled at this. Well done
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Pre- or post- Mars orbiter?
OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
That burn was out of this world