Every day I thank god the americans at least use the same time units as everyone else
62Except it's nearly always a 12 hour clock :/
47The French did try out decimal time, but it never took.
19Feel free to switch to metric time if you want. Then you can complain that Americans are still stuck on the old system.
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American here: I find this offensive. This is clearly not an actual, functioning firearm, very unrealistic.
33It's a bubble gun.
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YYYY/MM/DD hhmm, 24 hour clock gang unite!
(We also support our YYYY.MM.DD and YYYYMMDD compatriots)
32YYYY-MM-DD is what most filename formats and sorting algorithms prefer.
17I 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
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YYYY.MM.DD
Hyphens are overrated
26YYYY年MM月DD日
embrace the sinographic way.
20built 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
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Hyphens for phone numbers
Skip the dots for dates, or optional hyphens
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ISO-8601 exists for a reason and is better.
20RFC triple-three nine
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You can say the same thing about the imperial system
15But space is so much cooler in the imperial system
16The Mars Climate Orbiter is what happens IRL when space even touches the imperial system.
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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?
95th of June, or even still June 5th, because it doesn't have to match the order of the date format.
22Also 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).
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June 5th or the 5th of June
65th 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.
6Here we say 5 June
4"Fifth June" in German.
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That pistol looks like a repainted Skippy from Cyberpunk 2077
8The maximum number of numbers for months is 12, the maximum number of days is 30 and years is infinite. Mathematically, it makes sense.
5Except for the US military (unless it's changed in the last 20 years). We used 19 May 2024.
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