People complaining about the time and date format, and not the equal sign for an approximation…
Tomorrow...
Submitted 1 month ago by lena@gregtech.eu to [deleted]
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Hapankaali@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I refuse to accept date/time formats that don’t sort automatically. yyyy-MM-dd or bust
naught101@lemmy.world 1 month ago
See you in 89 years
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 month ago
Do you use dates only in computers?
cattywampas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Any intelligent person uses MM:HH 😤
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, you can celebrate it with us inbreeds then.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Then you can celebrate at 2:03PM…
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Sorry, next year…next digit is 5 so need to round up.
dwemthy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gonna get up at 3:14 and eat a whole pie then go back to sleep
Just like every day
chellomere@lemmy.world 1 month ago
≈
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 month ago
Rounding up, too…
wieson@feddit.org 1 month ago
For some reason Pi doesn’t get rounded, it gets cut off
Steve@communick.news 1 month ago
The date is backwards. 2026-09-15
Randelung@lemmy.world 1 month ago
FUUUUUCK IT WAS SEVEN MINUTES AGO I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M ACTUALLY USUALLY AWAKE AT THIS TIME AND STILL MISSED IT GODDAMMIT
CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today 1 month ago
It will hit my time zone in 5 hours. Wanna come over & get another chance to experience it here?
funksoulkitchen@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Quick new time zone
lena@gregtech.eu 1 month ago
You can still catch it at 3PM
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 1 month ago
Happy Pi Day Eve, everyone!!!
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 month ago
03:14 15/09/2026
So broken.
Botzo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
2026-09-15T03:14:00Z
RFC3339 or RFC9557 or bust.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 month ago
Well, that's not a circle at all. I'm beginning to think Pi Day is something made up to sell protractors in stores to unknowing kids.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Call me when it’s the calendar notarisation the rest of the world uses, only 3 continues use your fucked up backwards way of doing it
Allero@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Actually, this one is DD/M/YYYY, so except for just one number for a month, this is the international notation, not American.
For some reason, I also had this jerk, expecting American notation, but here is not the case.
lena@gregtech.eu 1 month ago
Gotta love people get pissed off without actually verifying that the thing they’re getting pissed off about is actually there
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Tbh it was 1am and I was bed posting, I really shouldn’t post whilst sleepy 😂
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Imma celebrate in the pm.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Checking back; I did!
DigDoug@lemmy.world 1 month ago
τ/2
hOrni@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s a stretch. You start with bigger unit first, then switch to biggest last. The only way I would accept this is all units ordered the same way, so You either start with years but that won’t fit or you start with minutes, but that would be insane and also not fit. And why do You skip seconds?
p_consti@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is this supposed to be a joke? Because this is the standard datetime format in large parts of the world
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Yeah… People are weird in this comment section. One person said the only natural way to read numbers was biggest first, as if it were a universal truth. And while there are variations in date format, to my knowledge most people don’t write the date with the year first? Like, it’s the least useful number to put first. I have rarely asked for the date and been actually inquiring what year it is. The day is the number I want to know most of the time. Day, month, year, in order of which number you most likely need to know first.
Month, day, year on government forms for some reason, though :/
VonReposti@feddit.dk 1 month ago
The sane ordering outside iso8601 revolves around the most significant bit. When you ask for the time, 34 minutes is usually not significant in any matter in written contexts since you could be reading it more than an hour later. Hence hours are more significant than minutes (verbal can often be an exception, “20 minutes past” can be enough context if someone asks for the time). But the “time” part of datetime is always more significant than the “date” part. The year is least significant since that one changes the least, then comes month, and lastly year. In many contexts knowing it is 14th of September is enough. In chats it might even be enough to say “14th” if you’re talking about a date in this very month. But due to the timespan between writing and reading, minutes more often than not is meaningless without hours, hence hours become more significant.
Of course HH:mm dd/mm/yyyy is inferior when it comes to computer parsing due to iso8601 being the easiest to sort. (And because of Americans it is the only format to cause no confusion). But it is going least significant first in the sense that you are presented with year first, something that is often redundant in human-to-human interaction (depending on context you might say year is more significant than time in the case of wanting to know when an article was released, but you know, there’s always more exceptions than rules).
So to sum it up: Use whatever date time format you want as long as you use a format fit for the context it is used in. Unless you’re saving it to a database/directory/etc. Then use iso8601 so I can easily sort it.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’re using the word “significant” in a colloquial/informal way, but in terms of the strict mathematical definition, most significant digits to least significant is about the size of the unit. If you were to create a dial system, the most significant digits move the slowest and the least significant digits move the fastest.
So ISO 8601 properly orders it left to right, largest to smallest, without exceptions. It can be truncated for lower precision, like how 2026-09-14T20:15:35 takes place in a particular year (2026), or a particular calendar month (2026-09) or a particular day (2026-09-14).
It’s the best format and everyone should use it.
eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Fuck it, let’s do MM:HH next.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People won’t tell you that this is the real Pi Day.
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I used to have a screenshot of time.gov from
March, 14, '15 9:26:54am
It was my prized digital possession until I lost it in my imgur pile
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is part of the Pi Expanded Universe.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
So tomorrow is pie day. Got it.
KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 1 month ago
American calendar.
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Day month year is about as universally a standard as metric. USA is month day year.
KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 1 month ago
I thought most of the European continent used year, month, day.
Thanks for the knowledge.
Also… how’d it go? I’m guessing you were awake for such a notable event.?
jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
14:03
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The world might just end.
thiscat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
So you mean that this is the true day krab fries
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
*shocked pikachu face
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s 03:14 if it’s HH/MM, you absolute heathen.
zammy95@lemmy.world 1 month ago
03.1415926
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
man printf
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Yeah, and π is 3.141592654…, so if you round up to the nearest ten millionth it’s actually 3.1415927
Sorry OP, gotta wait till next year…
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Still works as there’re plenty of mathematicians that would love for people to acknowledge the infinite zeros preceding each number.
The real problem in this case is if you write september as 09.