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> March 14 (represented as 3/14 in many parts of the world) haha
by hokobomo 8y ago
> March 14 (represented as 3/14 in many parts of the world)
haha
- isostatic 8y agoThe US and Philippines use month-day-year. The rest of the world doesn't. The most popular format is Day-Month-Year, followed by Year-Month-Day.
- s_gourichon 8y agoYes. ISO chooses year-month-day, which puts largest component first and smallest last. This has the nice benefit that treating it as a string and doing alphanumerical sort matches the actual day sort. Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
- isostatic 8y agoThere are benefits to both little endian and big endian
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoYes, but the US uses middle endian.
- rkangel 8y agoThe main benefit of Y-M-D, is that no-one uses Y-D-M, and the 'Y' component is easily recognisable. So if you use Y-M-D, then everyone knows it's Y-M-D and there is no ambiguity.
- isostatic 8y agoI found out recently the x509/tls certa are YYMMDD 200122 For example. Amazing.
- xpil 8y agoMy two favourite date formats are: (1) yyyy-MMM-dd and (2): yyyyMMdd. Why? (1) eliminates any ambiguity regarding interpretation. You can have an instance of a server of an unknown provenience and/or regional settings and still count on yyyy-MMM-dd to be correctly recognized. (2) on the other hand has a nice feature of being sortable and can also be stored as an integer value if needed. The US standard of MM/dd/yyyy is ridiculous. But it's just one of many and I'm not going to fix the world ;) On the main topic: if anyone needs to calculate the circumference of the Universe (radius: 50bn lightyears ish) with the accuracy of the Planck distance (approximately 1.6 x 10^-30 meters), they need less than 65 digits of Pi to do so. So, as already stated, it's just a PR stunt, nothing more.
- isostatic 8y agoyyyy-MM-dd is sortable (2019-03-14) yyyy-MMM-dd is not (2019-MAR-14)
- StreakyCobra 8y agoI wanted to comment the same part, but I wanted to let them the benefit of the doubt, so I went to Wikipedia «date format by country» page [1], and summed up from the table how many people have "MD" vs "DM" in their date format: DM -> 3392/5550 ~= 61.1% MD -> 2158/5550 ~= 38.9% Note: I ignored both green and red regions that have both "DM" and "MD" in their format. So it is definitively not the majority of people. Using the word "some" instead would have been better, but "Many" is not totally wrong… I guess. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country#Usage_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country#Usage_m...
- klohto 8y agoBut that is population not a number of countries. If you look at it from a country perspective, the percentage is tiny.
- StreakyCobra 8y agoProbably. The statement talk about "parts of the world", and this concept of "parts" can be seen as countries, continents, surface of earth, atoms, etc. I chose to reduce it to the smallest meaningful entity concerning the concept of dates: humans. It is arbitrary, but justifiable :)
- FakeComments 8y agoYou seem to imply it’s wrong to refer to 40% of the population as “many” — which seems odd.
- vonmoltke 8y agoI treat "some" as an informal expression of relative quantity and "many" as an informal expression of absolute quantity. So it is valid to say many countries use "MD" and many countries use "DM", though most countries use "DM" and only some use "MD".
- skykooler 8y agoYeah, but we can't celebrate on the other way around, because there's no 14th month.
- v_lisivka 8y agoWe can celebrate Pi day every month at 3 14:15:92.65359.
- andrewla 8y agoAnd April only has 30 days.
- UncleSlacky 8y agoThere's the 22nd of July (22/7), also known as Pi Approximation Day, which in any case is more accurate than 3.14.