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Pi Day (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

How about March Fourteenth as "American PI-Day" and 22.07. as "international, sensible and widely understood PI-Day", each according to the used date format?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

A third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

"widely understood" maybe in certain circles hehe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

22/07 is already known as "Pi Approximation Day"

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Imagine acting superior about a date format.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that's a superior format.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also the date format used organically in East Asia because of the cultural habit of writing big to small.

English tends small to big, so I don't know where yanks got their date format from.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on that last part? I fail to think of anything where its natural for English to go from small units to big units.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Addresses is the main one.

But also when talking about objects and categories, e.g. "the oak is a type of tree", not "trees have a type which is oak".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Great examples! Thanks!