People complaining about the time and date format, and not the equal sign for an approximation…
Tomorrow...
Submitted 3 hours ago by lena@gregtech.eu to [deleted]
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Hapankaali@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That’s 03:14 if it’s HH/MM, you absolute heathen.
cattywampas@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Any intelligent person uses MM:HH 😤
danc4498@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Well, you can celebrate it with us inbreeds then.
Steve@communick.news 2 hours ago
The date is backwards. 2026-09-15
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Sorry, next year…next digit is 5 so need to round up.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 3 hours ago
Happy Pi Day Eve, everyone!!!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
Imma celebrate in the pm.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 hours ago
03:14 15/09/2026
So broken.
Botzo@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
2026-09-15T03:14:00Z
RFC3339 or RFC9557 or bust.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 hours 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.
hOrni@lemmy.world 3 hours 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?
VonReposti@feddit.dk 11 minutes 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.
p_consti@lemmy.world 3 hours 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 hour 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 :/
thiscat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
So you mean that this is the true day krab fries
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
*shocked pikachu face
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 48 seconds ago
The world might just end.