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As an European I find use of AM and PM anywhere at all offensive. It's a symbol of American imperialism. Google should immediately update this style guide and p
by kewrkewm53 5y ago
As an European I find use of AM and PM anywhere at all offensive. It's a symbol of American imperialism. Google should immediately update this style guide and promote the use of international standards as default.
- baxuz 5y agoHah. But seriously — I really find it offensive how many apps and features, especially those coming from Google are hardcoded to use °F, AM/PM, DD/MM/YYYY, weekdays starting on Sundays, and imperial measurement units. I have all my devices set to British English, since I can't deal with broken Croatian translations, but I'm trying to get away from these ass-backwards formats that only 4% of the world's population uses. Sadly, that 4% is responsible for almost all of the media and core software we consume, so I guess we're stuck with it.
- kevincox 5y agoSeriously. The Google Search console is hardcoded to display graphs with the time axis like 4/3/21 4/8/21 4/13/21 and I always need to stare at them a while to tell what sort of timeframe I am looking at. The same issue is present on so many Google products. Groups is especially bad because I find an old message with a date like 3/12/8 and have absolutely no idea when it is from.
- blackshaw 5y ago> DD/MM/YYYY Did you mean to write MM/DD/YYYY?
- baxuz 5y agoYes. It's so wrong that I can't even write it properly.
- nmfisher 5y agoI find MM/DD/YYYY offensive, not because it's American, but because it's so damn illogical.
- stevehawk 5y agoThat's really the amazing condescension in all of this that they're too self centered to see. Silicon Valley is trying to redefine global terms and symbols because it makes them feel better about a bad American political situation and history. They can't see the forest for the trees and they don't care, because at the end of the day they get to pat themselves on the back and virtue signal.