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Professionals have standards! Community for all proponents, defenders and junkies of the Metric (International) system, the ISO standards (including ISO 8601) and other ways of standardization or regulation!

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Wow! It actually makes sense! (i.imgur.com)

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

:) fair point...I do admit that MDY is dumb, my only real argument is that MD makes more sense, and that is what is used in the US. The fact that our next step is MDY instead of YMD loses all the credibility, and Minute:Second:Hour is a funny and well deserved mockery of that.

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

my only real argument is that MD makes more sense, and that is what is used in the US

Sometimes.

Sometimes it isn't.

Like when people say "4th of July" instead of 7/4.