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Minor, minor point: why would an employee of an american company write the dates using the DD/MM/YYYY format instead of the american MM/DD/YYYY? Again, I know
by ahmedfromtunis 3y ago
Minor, minor point: why would an employee of an american company write the dates using the DD/MM/YYYY format instead of the american MM/DD/YYYY?
Again, I know this is a very minor point, put it was distracting.
- ceh123 3y agoImportant correction, it’s not DD/MM/YYYY, but DD Month YYYY. (At least what I saw in the article) This format is common in heavily regulated industries and frequently a regulatory requirement since it’s fully unambiguous. I (American) worked in clinical research/pharma for a bit and still write my dates like 23Jan2024.
- kube-system 3y ago> DD Month YYYY Is also the standard international format for aeronautical publications.
- daveslash 3y agoI like dd MMM YYYY just fine, especially in documentation. But truthfully, I much prefer YYYY-MM-dd. I know that by using dd MMM YYYY you avoid the ambiguity of dd/MM vs MM/dd, and avoiding the ambiguity is important, but I think most folks know that when the year comes first, then what follows is the month. If someone sees 2024-03-05, I don't think most people wonder Is that March 5th, of May 3rd of 2024? And I like YYYY-MM-dd because it's (a) In alignment with ISO 8601 and (b) sorts so much easier as plaintext. In documentation, I'll use dd MMM YYYY for signatures and document dates, but for things like big tabular data in the body of a document or in spreadsheets, or logging, or CSV exports, I'll default to YYYY-MM-dd
- bitcharmer 3y agoMaybe because engineers don't like nonsense standards?
- rightbyte 3y agoNot using a mixed endian date encoding when noone forces you to, is suspicious? Like the scene in that Tarantino movie with nazis, where the British spy give himself away by ordering three whiskey with the wrong fingers ...
- Traubenfuchs 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-lQWk79VAE&t=92s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-lQWk79VAE&t=92s
- p_l 3y agoAviation, with the annoying exception of feet as unit, largely eradicates such problematic "local standards" from professional usage. At some point you find yourself simply using the "standard" ways even when you don't have to. Yours sincerely, guilty of using ICAO phonetic alphabet with poor random office workers over the phone.
- marcosdumay 3y agoPeople just find the phonetic alphabet weird, but everybody gets it right every time. It's this good. Nobody suffers any setback from hearing it.
- p_l 3y agoSometimes they are really confused. And some idioms involved in it don't translate easily if you're not conversing in English, for example X-Ray or Yankee. Still most of it works out so less confusing than if I tried to jury rig something (traditional polish way was to use First Names that use given letter as the first letter, but that doesn't cover X or Y well, either)
- xxpor 3y agodon't forget pressure
- p_l 3y agommHg is, due to historical reasons, pretty well distributed, and hPa is also rather widely used. inHg appears to have way less penetration than feets for altitude or feet/minute for vertical speed (way inferior to meter/second IMHO).
- DarmokJalad1701 3y agoIn the US at least, inHg is used to specify the altimeter setting in aviation.
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- kube-system 3y agoUS customary units and formats are often used in US homes, but other units and formats are frequently used, particularly in industries that do business internationally. Even the US military actually uses DD/month/YY