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[-] death_to_carrots@feddit.org 68 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How about March Fourteenth as "American PI-Day" and 22.07. as "international, sensible and widely understood PI-Day", each according to the used date format?

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 20 points 3 months ago

A third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

22/07 is already known as "Pi Approximation Day"

[-] lmaydev@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

"widely understood" maybe in certain circles hehe

[-] FryHyde@lemmy.zip -4 points 3 months ago

Imagine acting superior about a date format.

[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

No need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that's a superior format.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 months 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 2 points 3 months 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 3 points 3 months 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".

[-] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Great examples! Thanks!

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