Amer(ule)ica

flamingos-cant@feddit.uk to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 451 points –
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Every day I thank god the americans at least use the same time units as everyone else

The French did try out decimal time, but it never took.

Feel free to switch to metric time if you want. Then you can complain that Americans are still stuck on the old system.

Every time I see this comic I can't help but notice "20130227" among discouraged formats which is actually a valid date per mentioned standard.

YYYY/MM/DD hhmm, 24 hour clock gang unite!

(We also support our YYYY.MM.DD and YYYYMMDD compatriots)

YYYY-MM-DD is what most filename formats and sorting algorithms prefer.

I don't care what the separating character is, so long as there is one and a numerical sort will arrange dates in chronological order. =D

YYYY.MM.DD

Hyphens are overrated

YYYY年MM月DD日

embrace the sinographic way.

built in reminder of what each number means too!

unfortunately I prefer 月火水木 over 星期一二三 which is a little less logical but also relates to European names and is more compact

Hyphens for phone numbers

Skip the dots for dates, or optional hyphens

So in the US if you are telling someone a date you say something like 'June 5Th' (year is optional if in current year). How would people in other countries say it?

5th of June, or even still June 5th, because it doesn't have to match the order of the date format.

Also in all other languages where I know how to say the date it's some form of 5th (day of) June. While it is possible to have it the other way around it's really only found in old writings (June's 5th day).

5th of June or June 5th, both are valid. However numeric date format has little to do with how it's said. yyyy-MM-dd (and seperator variants) has the benefit of being orderable and indexable chronologically.

The maximum number of numbers for months is 12, the maximum number of days is 30 and years is infinite. Mathematically, it makes sense.

Except for the US military (unless it's changed in the last 20 years). We used 19 May 2024.