It's 4.3.21
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Oh boy.
That's a can'o'worms OP.
Can't wait for a imperial x metric thread, a tipping thread and a circumcision thread for the most weekend-ERA we can be.
That's a can'o'worms OP.
Can't wait for a imperial x metric thread, a tipping thread and a circumcision thread for the most weekend-ERA we can be.
OP
OP
Same reasons our calendars start on Sunday instead of Monday. Changing things is hard, and it's not something that's really worth it.
OP
OP
That's a big ask for me.
Damn.
Are you having a stroke? What's your name? Who's President of the United States?
I usually say it's March fourth, not the fourth of match verbally, so it makes sense for me to read and write it that way as well.
Tell your computer to sort files with these dates:
Jan 13
Feb 19
Mar 3
Apr 9
May 1
Jun 18
mm/dd
01.13
02.19
03.03
04.09
05.01
06.18
dd/mm
01.05
03.03
09.04
13.01
18.06
19.02
a mess, right.
You'll get no argument from me regarding imperial/metric, as imperial is stupid AF.
Jan 13
Feb 19
Mar 3
Apr 9
May 1
Jun 18
mm/dd
01.13
02.19
03.03
04.09
05.01
06.18
dd/mm
01.05
03.03
09.04
13.01
18.06
19.02
a mess, right.
You'll get no argument from me regarding imperial/metric, as imperial is stupid AF.
I agree. As a European, I would be deeply confused and scared to live in a world where Americans suddenly started to use proper formats, units or just generally did more sensible things, like introduce gun control.
Knowing that, however weird and crazy my live here sometimes is, there's somewhere else that's always weirder and just outright wrong about near everything gives me grounding.
It's what superman died for, and we have to respect that
ding ding ding
I don't even want to see some y'all's European file directories.
SS/MM/LLLL makes sense. America you do it weird. (Small to large makes sense).
As for computer formatting though YYYYMMDD(HHMMSS, I think... no one uses that mind); we had a forecasting manager who enforced that and it stuck.
As for computer formatting though YYYYMMDD(HHMMSS, I think... no one uses that mind); we had a forecasting manager who enforced that and it stuck.
Yup. The American way is actually functionally superior for dates. The imperial system for measurements? Yeah, that's worse.
Add year to the mix and the whole world burns.
yyyy/mm/dd
Unless you like looking at:
03/03/2021
03/04/1920
06/07/2025
22/7 is Pi Day in countries that put the date first, based on the approximate fraction.
My post wasn't particularly serious either. *shrug*
For what it's worth, I feel the only sensible date format is the ISO one, so YYYY-MM-DD.
I think the idea is that going from smallest to largest can make sense, and going from largest to smallest can also make sense, but going middle unit, then smallest unit, then largest unit doesn't really make sense from either perspective. It's be weird to express a length of time as five months, two years, and three days. Or two years, three days, and five months. Or a length of road as two miles, six inches, and seventy feet. And so on.
As a computer scientist I think YYYY/MM/DD makes the most sense, since it can be easily sorted. But it really doesn't matter what people use in, like, casual conversation.
Middle endian (the USA way) is just chaotic. Either go little endian like the rest of the world does in every day or big endian for file names (ISO 8601)
The holier-than-thou anti-American attitude on ERA is reaching new heights.
OP, the entire premise to your thread is factually incorrect. I think that's an impressive feat given the simplicity of the subject matter.
With that said,I've always understood it to be formatted as it is because that's how we verbalize it. "Yesterday was April 3rd, 2021" -> 4/3/2021.
Now, that's not fair. Yes, I was doing some low-effort trolling, but that doesn't mean I don't also openly and consistently admit that Europe in general, and my country in particular has issues, and will comment and call them out as it comes up on Era.
I wasn't meaning to single you out, just a trend one observes. I'll be the first to admit we have major issues, ERA just loves to dogpile the US at any chance, over anything. That's cool though, we have our fair share of problems.
Because it should either be Year > Month > Day or Month > Day > Year.
Search parameters by relevance. You don't open up a calendar and search for the day then the month. You search month first. You would search for year before that, but that's often only going to come up if it's in a different year.
I'd be an advocate for a standardization over to Year/Month/Day, but Day/Month/Year has no practical benefits over Month/Day/Year and is purely an aesthetic preference.
NO!... Yesterday was 'The 3rd of April 2021' 3/4/2021 ;)
To me it's always made sense to have to smallest division of the year first, so Day-Month-Year
Not that I really care as it's just what you're used too.
I think less people would do it if Americans (of course not all) stopped acting like the US is by far the greatest country on earth.