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month/day/year makes sense. the way you euro's do it is stupid. when someone asks you "where were you on X date" do you respond with: "Well on the 23rd day of n

month/day/year makes sense. the way you euro's do it is stupid. when someone asks you "where were you on X date" do you respond with: "Well on the 23rd day of november i was at X place"? LMAO. stop occupying the same universe as me.

katbyte 4y ago
i'll bite - why do you need to write the date the same you say it? two totally different contexts. And it leads to confusion: 11/11/2022 <- what date is that? or how about 02/05/2022? 2022-11-11 is not ambiguous. and then there is sorting. if you have filenames that are in YYYY-MM-DD you get perfect sorting by date. MM/DD/YYYY you do not. and its not just "euros" who do it that way - its basically the entire world outside of the USA.
yakubin 4y ago
I’d drop the “day”, but yes.
EugeneOZ 4y ago
8 billion - USA population = how many people you insulted.
dang 4y ago
Hey, could you please stop breaking the site guidelines, such as by calling names ("stupid"), or posting unsubstantive or flamebait comments? You've been doing this repeatedly, and we eventually have to ban such accounts. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- skee8383 4y ago
  "Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups. It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it—the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both sides. It is the psychologist's job to make possible the acceptance of such an idea so that the richness of the varieties of experience, whether within the unit of the single personality or in the wider unit of the group, can come to expression."
  - dang 4y ago
    Yes, but "you euro's do it stupid" falls a little short of the "finer solutions".

katbyte 4y ago

i'll bite - why do you need to write the date the same you say it? two totally different contexts. And it leads to confusion: 11/11/2022 <- what date is that? or how about 02/05/2022? 2022-11-11 is not ambiguous. and then there is sorting. if you have filenames that are in YYYY-MM-DD you get perfect sorting by date. MM/DD/YYYY you do not. and its not just "euros" who do it that way - its basically the entire world outside of the USA.

yakubin 4y ago

I’d drop the “day”, but yes.

EugeneOZ 4y ago

8 billion - USA population = how many people you insulted.

dang 4y ago

Hey, could you please stop breaking the site guidelines, such as by calling names ("stupid"), or posting unsubstantive or flamebait comments? You've been doing this repeatedly, and we eventually have to ban such accounts. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

skee8383 4y ago
"Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups. It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it—the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both sides. It is the psychologist's job to make possible the acceptance of such an idea so that the richness of the varieties of experience, whether within the unit of the single personality or in the wider unit of the group, can come to expression."
- dang 4y ago
  Yes, but "you euro's do it stupid" falls a little short of the "finer solutions".