Comment on Pi Day
No need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior
DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that’s a superior format.
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.
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.
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”.
Shareni@programming.dev 1 month ago
DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that’s a superior format.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 month 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.
dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 1 month 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@lemmynsfw.com 1 month 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”.