I’m American, but observe on July 22nd.
so you're an engineer
Far from it, but I like that 22/7 is numerically closer.
Pi day is a fake holiday created by people who don't know how to format dates. Also, relevant xkcd.
TIL XKCD has a mobile site
ISO format is the only correct way to format dates.
Aw yeah! UTC gang!
YYYY.MM.DD (or similar) is the best (I just think dots look better and keeps the date together in many word processors, where hyphens do not)
DD/MM/YYYY is acceptable.
MM/DD/YYYY needs to be put out of its misery.
Interesting. I prefer hyphens to improve readability
Luckily for you that's the iso standard haha
I wouldn't mind if it could be kept on the same line, but I don't believe there is a non-breaking hyphen in unicode.
You can insert non-breaking hyphens into MS Office programs like word though. Very useful if you're an engineer and writing out tags in reports all the time (and dislike when they get broken across lines).
The actual print character is a normal hyphen, though.
Thanks for reading my pedantic preferences haha
If you want a computer to sort dates in a sane manner, year-month-day is the only option. Anything else is madness.
Biggest to smallest - makes it easy to sort by date for things like folders of photos. And other things, I’m sure.
Biggest to smallest fails though for years which are smaller than the months, and for months which are smaller than the days.
e.g. Dec 1st 2003, would be written 12/03/01 biggest to smallest
I don't think you've thought this through, and frankly I question your mother's sexual decency.
Biggest is referring to length of time, not number. Years are bigger than months are bigger than days, temporally.
nah
Four digit years are required, as are dashes. 2012-03-01
Do you even ISO, bro?
nah
I mean biggest to smallest in units of time (year/month/day)
nah
Ok
why you guys downvoting this?
this is so obviously satire
It's harmless fun, come downvote with us!
Thats because they dont have the same starting spot
5045874580890/165951270140/13829272511
DDDDDDDDDDDDD/MMMMMMMMMMMM/YYYYYYYYYYY is the best date format
Finally, a fellow scholar!
I think this joke has gone full circle.
Shit and I just ordered a new order of operations
You can never trust Big Number.
They keep trying to make laws without going through Congress or the Senate.
Pie was never meant to be commercialised!
(Also come on guys, please stop shortening it to 'pi'. We're not restricted by '90s SMS length any more!)
Loved the joke, but I'm distracted. There are cabinets below the white board and storage space above. What is done with the extra space behind the whiteboard? I'm picturing like storage or cubbies in the next classroom over or something?
It'd be wild if the staff can store stuff behind the whiteboards.
The whiteboards are on sliders or hinges to access shelving behind.
Pie are squared? No, pie are circled!
Pie are round. Cornbread are square!
I guess I did it wrong, I drove out to a country diner and bought a slice of foot-high chocolate meringue pie.
And all this time, I thought it was the cake that was a lie...
while sly PI stole my mind into infinite cries
of WHY CAN'T IT JUST BE 3.1415???!?!!
3.1416
We celebrate tau day in this household
Pi=4
they have taken us for absolute fools
Jesse, we need to calculate.
Maths:
For a few brief years, there's was a men's alternative to Valentines day. "Steak & Blowjobs day" was held exactly one month later, on March 14.
I have never seen such a surge in love for mathematics since then. Women around the world who barely know what Pi represents were suddenly very aware that March 14 was Pi day.
Women around the world probably remember that pi is nowhere near 14,3.
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