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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i wasn't aware about that number, now i am, thanks china

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

6-4 (June 4th)for those not reading the article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

China incorrectly places the month before the day as well?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wikipedia says China uses Year, Month, Day exclusively, so they do place month before day.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Oh shit yeah ISO 8601, that’s cool.

Thought it was like the stupid M/D/Y thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow ok. Do they do that in practice? Like in Australia we measure everything in metric... except for all the things we measure in imperial.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Live in China, yes it's consistently applied. But they also spell it out, i.e. today's date would be 2023年10月4日 (year-month-day / nian-yue-ri), so the order is unmistakably.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So one of the only countries that does it correctly. (Day Month Year is just as wrong as Month Day Year)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

June Fourth incident is how they refer to it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Which incident China? I thought "nothing happened" that day.

Seems silly censoring a date that nothing happened on.

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