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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which timezone is this? B-, good effort

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we need some

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-TZ

All up in here. Gotta replace the last - with a + where applicable... Or just put a big old Z there instead... Optionally add some .### after the second too if you're so inclined.

Awww yeahhhhhh. I like that.

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

I used to be pro-8601 until I learned the open standard that is RFC 3339

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

easy to remember, as 9/11 was a couple of days ago.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You mean 9.11. ?
9/11 is 0.81 repeating

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Different languages have different conventions. For example, the standardized variety of my language allows 11/(0)9/2001, 11/(0)9/01, 11.(0)9.2001, 11.(0)9.01, 2001-09-11, 2001/09/11, 2001.09.11 (personally I usually use 11/09 without the year and 2001-09-11 with the year).

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

Sorry, I'm just still used to Reddit, where people say stuff like this completely seriously.

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

repeating

True. History will repeat itself. Never forget.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

English speakers: In the first car of the first race in the first tournament.

US: In the first race's first car in the first tournament.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The only universally correct date format is ISO.

[–] wreckedcarzz 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I too use disk images as date trackers

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Catch me loading up a new version of Super Smash Bros Melee every time I gotta save a timestamp.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

look, it's windows xp sp3 o'clock

[–] EnderMB 8 points 1 year ago

I prefer RFC 3339, less ambiguous.

[–] Zunon 5 points 1 year ago

in the first tournament's first race's first car

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

ISO mid, RFC on top

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm so glad we all use 315/23 for the date. Much easier if you just leave out the month.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Years are also redundant. It's day 738835.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Day 1 can only be when the first creature crawled on land or when Adam spanked eve erotically for the first time. I don't recognize any other.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I don't listen to rap music

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

The best epoch

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd prefer to count them from the big bang, but to each their own.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Adam spanking Eve erotically was the Big Bang

[–] captainlezbian 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t want to hear shit about what order we write numbers in from a continent where numbers include one hundred nine and thirty to mean 139, or three twenties ten and nine for 79

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're so mad at Fr*nch and German numbers, don't look up Danish numbers. Unless you can guess what "five and half five's". Did you guess 95? Why would you?

[–] captainlezbian 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's a twenty based system. "Two's" is 40, "three's" is 60, ...

50 is "halfway to 60" so it's "half three's", likewise "half four's" for 70, "four's" for 80 and "half five's" for 90. 100 is its own word so "half five's" exists but "five's" doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Seventeen is 7+10 (seven+teen) but twenty one is 20+1 (twenty+one)

If English was more consistent, seventeen would be ten seven.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If it was really consistent, it would be something like onety seven but not really either, since it's also not twoty seven.

PS: Eleven would be onety one.

[–] DannyMac 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Extra fancy Winnie the Pooh: YYYY/MM/DD

[–] finestnothing 2 points 1 year ago

I label all of my notes like 'YYYYMMDD_some_title_here' so they automatically sort by when I made them when sorted by name, or YYYYMMDDHHmm if the note won't be getting a title (such as daily notes or notes that I made too quickly to care about titling)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

everyone should just use stardates

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

And everyone does, but everyone has their own standard

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

You all are so concerned about the formatting of the date, but I dont see any of you buying a new copy of a certain game to avoid Todd Howard's curse

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

One day later, today is 1211/100.

[–] BreadOven 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This didn't age well (I guess I should have looked at it 5 days ago).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or waited until 12th of December.

[–] BreadOven 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ah, good point.

Edit: I wasn't trying to be mean or anything with my posts. Just wanted to be dumb haha. I hope no one took it the wrong way.

[–] WaxedWookie 2 points 1 year ago

❌ Pyramids.jpg

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