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[-] nikita@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 year ago

Every day I thank god the americans at least use the same time units as everyone else

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 47 points 1 year ago

Except it's nearly always a 12 hour clock :/

[-] peto@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

The French did try out decimal time, but it never took.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Feel free to switch to metric time if you want. Then you can complain that Americans are still stuck on the old system.

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 38 points 1 year ago
[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago
[-] CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I feel like there are argument for and against. I think people just gotta do it and see whether others pick it up

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

American here: I find this offensive. This is clearly not an actual, functioning firearm, very unrealistic.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It's a bubble gun.

[-] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

YYYY/MM/DD hhmm, 24 hour clock gang unite!

(We also support our YYYY.MM.DD and YYYYMMDD compatriots)

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago

YYYY-MM-DD is what most filename formats and sorting algorithms prefer.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

I don't care what the separating character is, so long as there is one and a numerical sort will arrange dates in chronological order. =D

[-] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

YYYY.MM.DD

Hyphens are overrated

[-] yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago

YYYY年MM月DD日

embrace the sinographic way.

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

built in reminder of what each number means too!

unfortunately I prefer 月火水木 over 星期一二三 which is a little less logical but also relates to European names and is more compact

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hyphens for phone numbers

Skip the dots for dates, or optional hyphens

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

ISO-8601 exists for a reason and is better.

[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

You can say the same thing about the imperial system

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But space is so much cooler in the imperial system

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The Mars Climate Orbiter is what happens IRL when space even touches the imperial system.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-climate-orbiter/

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

So in the US if you are telling someone a date you say something like 'June 5Th' (year is optional if in current year). How would people in other countries say it?

[-] Shadowedcross@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

5th of June, or even still June 5th, because it doesn't have to match the order of the date format.

[-] TaTTe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Also in all other languages where I know how to say the date it's some form of 5th (day of) June. While it is possible to have it the other way around it's really only found in old writings (June's 5th day).

[-] mr_satan 6 points 1 year ago

5th of June or June 5th, both are valid. However numeric date format has little to do with how it's said. yyyy-MM-dd (and seperator variants) has the benefit of being orderable and indexable chronologically.

[-] bownage@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Here we say 5 June

[-] _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

"Fifth June" in German.

[-] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

That pistol looks like a repainted Skippy from Cyberpunk 2077

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Except for the US military (unless it's changed in the last 20 years). We used 19 May 2024.

[-] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

The maximum number of numbers for months is 12, the maximum number of days is 30 and years is infinite. Mathematically, it makes sense.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
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