• CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      USA is the edgy teen after moving out of the parents house (Europe) and finally doing stuff their own way. Not because it is practical, but because they feel rebellious.

    • Zanz@lemmy.ml
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      Majority of the world uses YYYY-MM-DD. Day 1st makes no sense. If you need the month or year it should come 1st. You need to zoom into what you need not select from any number of months with the same day. That would be like putting time with seconds 1st.

      • excusablejuan@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Not really, most countries use YYYY-MM-DD to save documents, photos or archive papers.

        DD-MM-YYYY is for daily usage.

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        If it weren’t so ingrained, I would be permanently using YYYY-MM-DD instead of DD/MM/YYYY.

        Works great for east Asia, and it sorts!

        I’d also like to advocate for using 24 time in speech.

        See you at 21 tomorrow :)

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        We wouldn’t in America in most cases. I’d say it’s August 9th 2023. I honestly feel like this is such a dumb argument to have because it doesn’t matter except for communication with people who use other methods. Now metric vs imperial makes way more sense to me because the metric system is just so much easier for mathematical conversions.

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          In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.

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    Alright, then I guess change the way you read a clock too… My day to day use doesn’t include the year at all. Just mm/dd

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      Why change the way you read a clock? year/month/day hour:minute:second

      You would never read a clock as minute:second:hour, which is analagous to how Americans phrase dates.

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      Americans pick up weird habits and then insist that it’s the right way. How is August 9th any better than 9th of August when the 9th is a subunit of August and not the other way around?

      Another good example is the use of the imperial system. I’ve heard Americans often declare that it’s a better system for manual use compared to the metric system. But the metric system has prefixes that differ consistently by 3 orders of magnitude, whereas the imperial system has rather arbitrary jumps between each successive unit. The metric system needs much less cognitive effort even for manual use.

      I can understand that it’s a matter of habit for Americans. But it’s the lack of acceptance that there is a problem that leads to other problems like crashing a spacecraft onto Mars.

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    The way I see it, the US just writes it the way it’s spoken. “August 9th, 2023” vs. “the 9th of August, 2023”.

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      No, the US just chose this order and speaks it the same way. I don’t speak it this way, you’re just used to it (just like everyone is to the way they speak it)

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      I’ve said it once and I will say it again:

      mkdir -p 2023/{January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,Septembet,October,November,December}

      Warning: not POSIX

      • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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        Look it’s easy, you just wait until the 13th of the month to figure out which format it is. Is 12 days really so much to ask?