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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Bullshit. ISO 8601 IS THE SUPERIOR DATE STANDARD
Tomorrow is 2024-08-30. DEAL WITH IT.

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

Stardate, 2024-08-30T06:34:17.993Z

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hilariously, Star treks "stardates" are not uniform. The format shifts season to season and show to show.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It's standardized now

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

This is the ideal file date format for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Metric is about measurements, not formatting. The date measurement is in days, months, and years for both ISO 8601 and what's shown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I always prefer it without the dashes. And just add on HHMMSS while we're at it!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (19 children)

While you're at it, switch over to DD/MM/YYYY for the date format. The only 2 configurations that make sense is that or YYYY/MM/DD. Either go general to specific or specific to general, MM/DD/YYYY makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bonus benefit - files starting with ISO dates sort alphabetically 🧠

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

that's already how i save versions of my files. dd-mm-yy doesn't make sense with files.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

DD/MM/YYYY is absolutely crazy. There is only one format that makes sense.

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

Months are the craziest, weirdest, stupidest measure humanity has used for this long. ISO8601 week dates make more sense, or even the French Revolutionary Calendar. Humans organize all of society by weeks, not by months. Compare last January to next January, or last February to next February for metrics. Do they have the same number of weekdays vs weekend days? Even if they do, do they happen at the same point in the month so you can compare the flow of the month? Now compare two weeks, and that's apples to apples. Group by weeks instead of months and your irregular, bumpy graph smooths right out. We only hang on to Gregorian months out of inertia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Months are one of the best ways for a low-tech/pre-tech culture to keep track of dates (using the Zodiac for something it can actually do—act as a calendar you can see no matter where you are in the world).

Keeping them around is a sensible fail-safe in case some nuclear power sets us back into the dark ages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If that were true, intercalary months shouldn't have been necessary.

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

I’m pretty sure that “oh, shoot, things got wonky… toss a 13th month in here real quick” is due to people trying to force months to fit weeks.

It’s the opposite of what I was saying about the role that months play in timekeeping & how they work.

ALSO, the same can be said for weeks & leap days… so if it’s a point against months, it’s just as much a point against weeks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Not a problem for the FRC, and 2023-W20 compares just fine with 2024-W20. Same part of the year, and the weekend is in the same spot.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Far more likely that whoever installed the clock just forgot to change the units.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

America officially switched to the metric system decades ago. We just don't use it on a daily basis, but officially the US is metric.

In 1988 Congress passed the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act, which made the metric system the preferred system of weights and measures for U.S. trade and commerce.

In 1991 President Bush issued Executive Order 12770, which mandated the transition to metric measurement for all federal agencies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I want a 473ml of beer, please and thank you.

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

@No1

That's called a can. Can I have a can of beer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Also known as "Not enough" XD

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

This is the most unrealistic thing about the episode.

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

Hate to point this out, but the fact there is a "C" on the sign kinda shows that no America did not adopt the metric system. If the US did there would be no reason to have "F" or "C" by the degrees as they are the last hold out.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But still write dates wrong

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Year-Month-Day is the only way. It's chronological!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Thank God! As a non United-stasian, I believe this will make things better. The imperial system looks broken as hell to me, if you see a chart comparing both, you will see what I mean.
/not joking, not in the mood of hearing sacarsm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Laughs in 8th day of the 30th month.

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