Comment on Pi Day

Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Half the fucking world would beg to differ

  …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_date_formats_by_country#…

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  • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Speaking as someone from a blue country on that map. Most of the world is wrong though. The ISO standard is designed that way for a reason. Not putting the largest unit first is just silly.

    Also m.xkcd.com/1179/

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Personally I can get behind YMD and DMY (while sticking to ISO would be preferrable for obvious reasons), but what on earth possessed people to come up with MDY?

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I have no idea why it started that way, but in everyday speech we say dates with the month first. So that makes MDY just the thing everybody is used to.

        Fortunately the ISO format YYYY-MM-DD still has the month before the day, so I don’t have to worry about my fellow Americans getting it confused.

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• coffee_whatever@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Pretty sure that iso standard of yours specifies using what you call military time, or 24 hour time system, which USA doesn’t use widely, so even they don’t use this standard

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  • dch82@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What are you even talking about?

    Most countries use a 24hr clock

    Many countries that use a 24hr clock don’t even use ISO8601 officially.

    The only countries I know officially use ISO8601 are certain East Asian countries.

    I don’t think they even use ISO8601 in the US Military.

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• Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Shame there isn’t a 31st of April then

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  • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t mind having an excuse to get ourselves a new calendar system :P

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