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Even in the US format, the 10th of January is still after the 9th of January. Perhaps the correct sentiment would be "If you're not used to reading, you'd be s
by Joker_vD 5y ago
Even in the US format, the 10th of January is still after the 9th of January.
Perhaps the correct sentiment would be "If you're not used to reading, you'd be surprised that 1.10 comes after 1.9 and vice versa".
- ThePadawan 5y agoI have no idea how you or your parent immediately arrived at calendar dates (which in my book require a period at the end), but to everyone i know, 1.10 is not a date, but a floating point number with the same magnitude as 1.1, which is thus closer to 0 than 1.9 is.
- blueflow 5y agoHow would October 1st be written down at your place?
- ThePadawan 5y ago1.10.
- blueflow 5y agoAh i see, the trailing dot.
- Joker_vD 5y agoWhat locale is that? I know that e.g. de-DE uses trailing dot to mark ordinal numbers, so "1." means "the first", but it also uses decimal comma instead of decimal point, so there is no confusion.
- ThePadawan 5y agoTBH, I'm German, but a Software Engineer, so it's a mix of both. I don't know what an average German would make of "1.10", really. I've only seen that as "subsection 10 of section 1 of a book".