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I think at this point it's just sloppy to use '$' by itself in any potentially-international context. I've worked for multiple companies where most of my colle

I think at this point it's just sloppy to use '$' by itself in any potentially-international context. I've worked for multiple companies where most of my colleagues consistently brushed this off. In each company, there was at least one significant budgeting stuff-up while I was there because someone interpreted a '$' number as the wrong kind of dollar. In the worst case I witnessed the "bill shock" was about 50 thousand dollars. (Wait, which "dollars" was that again?) At least with "fall" I know the author is talking about autumn in the northern hemisphere -- it's not so easy when someone writes that something is to be released "this summer". :)

bigiain 6y ago
> I think at this point it's just sloppy to use '$' by itself in any potentially-international context. Totally. It should, of course, have said: "0.0307227 BTC, as of 2020-08-04 01:31 UTC based on an average of the top 4 crypto exchanges" ;-) (
Jedd 6y ago
Oh, 'rest of world' has put up with this for years, but it's nice to complain every now and then. : ) I'd advocate ISO 8601 for everything, and it has periodicity built in -- though I happily concede "Coming in 2020-09/11" doesn't scan anywhere near as well, and would confuse way more people than it would satisfy.
- jeffparsons 6y ago
  > "Coming in 2020-09/11" doesn't scan anywhere near as well, and would confuse way more people than it would satisfy. Sure, but those aren't our only options. "Late 2020" or "towards the end of 2020" capture that kind of vague time frame at least as well.