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Matt BlazePi Day is a fake holiday that exploits a universally beloved mathematical constant to promote US-style date formats.
2xfo@mattblaze
April 31
Nicklas K. Hansen
Ariaflame@NickHans @RnDanger @mattblaze Which of course doesn't matter which way round it is because that day does not exist.
Elon Musk stick@masterdon I'm good. But thanks.
@ariaflame then why did you say May Day? We don’t have that in WA
@masterdon To me it's 'I bought a new car day'. And mostly I said it because I grew up in the UK and old habits die hard. Neither of them are public holidays anyway.
@ariaflame 31 April is a public holiday
Sar@ariaflame @NickHans @RnDanger @mattblaze
Where's the downvote button on this dang contraption? 😂
@NickHans @RnDanger @mattblaze It depends on how late it is, and in this case I'd actually spent a good minute myself working out whether we got a pi day, and was sad we didn't.
Víktor Bautista i Roca22nd July. Going back to the roots.
Random Damage 🌻
BillStewart415@RandomDamage @mattblaze
The problem with using ISO 8601 dates for Pi Day is that you have to make 2023 pi's.
The problem with using ISO 8601 dates for Pi Day is that you have to make 2023 pi's.
@billstewart415 @mattblaze that's definitely a challenge :)
Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦
Witek Kowalik@zalasur
I see it as a whole lot of goodness to eat, Dean Winchester style ;)
@billstewart415 @RandomDamage @mattblaze
I see it as a whole lot of goodness to eat, Dean Winchester style ;)
@billstewart415 @RandomDamage @mattblaze
Fish Head
JdeBP@ScottAkenhead @billstewart415
Exactly. And the other date formats give even worse results when evaluated. Some people are clearly terrible at basic arithmetic. (-:
JdeBP (@[email protected])
#Programming note: 2023-03-14 equals 2006 even in the #CLanguage and #CPlusPlus, because although the leading 0 denotes octal, 03 is luckily just 3. PS C:\> 2023-03-14 2006 PS C:\> In #PowerShell, too. And for the minority date format users: PS C:\> 14/3/2023 0.00230680507497117 PS C:\> 7/22/2023 0.000157282164202579 PS C:\> These are only going to get further away from pi as the years go on. (-: #maths #pi
@billstewart415 @RandomDamage @mattblaze
... or forget what a minus sign is. (-:
JdeBP (@[email protected])
#Programming note: 2023-03-14 equals 2006 even in the #CLanguage and #CPlusPlus, because although the leading 0 denotes octal, 03 is luckily just 3. PS C:\> 2023-03-14 2006 PS C:\> In #PowerShell, too. And for the minority date format users: PS C:\> 14/3/2023 0.00230680507497117 PS C:\> 7/22/2023 0.000157282164202579 PS C:\> These are only going to get further away from pi as the years go on. (-: #maths #pi
Sunflower Björnskalle 🌻@RandomDamage @mattblaze This is actually hard to argue with... both non-US orders are pretty valid and the choice between them seems pretty much arbitrary.
Dan VeditzIf you're doing month and day, order is arbitrary. If you add in year the European medium-small-large order makes no sense. I prefer year-month-day (sorts nicely!), but day-month-year is at least logical.
(yes, I fully expect us to resolve this cultural difference in a Mastodon thread)
Joe ❌👑@dveditz @apodoxus @RandomDamage Perhaps you reversed this? It's the US that does medium-small-large, Europe use small-medium-large (today is 14/3/2023 in Europe).
@not2b @apodoxus @RandomDamage
Ha! You're right. I disqualify myself from this debate (vote YMD!)
@dveditz @apodoxus @RandomDamage
Year month day all the way. That way your files sort chronologically when you alphabetize them
Year month day all the way. That way your files sort chronologically when you alphabetize them
Sylvain@RnDanger @dveditz @apodoxus @RandomDamage
Can we settle for writing (the hand- kind) DMY and typing YMD in lists, file names, etc?
My employer names our pay stub PDF using long date format (as in "14 mars 2023 - Sylvain Drapeau.pdf") and it tickles my OCD very much the wrong way...
@axnxcamr @dveditz @apodoxus @RandomDamage
For real. Like this is a perfectly functional listing 🙃
13 May 22
14 Jan 22
14 Oct 22
15 Apr 22
15 Aug 22
15 Dec 22
15 Feb 22
15 Jul 22
15 Jun 22
...
@RnDanger @dveditz @apodoxus @RandomDamage
It hurts so much...
@axnxcamr @RnDanger @apodoxus @RandomDamage
People are going to write numeric dates the way they speak. Americans say "March 14th" so we write "3/14". Someone asks "what year?" so you go out at the end.
At some point we must've said dates the other way ("4th of July" is preserved as a holiday) but I don't know when we switched. If you say "14th of March" now people will think your historical reenactment hobby is leaking into mundane life.
I meant the choice between YYYY-mm-dd and dd-mm-YYYY is arbitrary.... although I think the ISO-8601 order might have more going for it because you're just getting more and more specific... sorts better on computers anyway
Proto Rynn@RandomDamage @mattblaze YYYY-MM-DD:HH:MM:SS is the best time format IMO. A constant tick up into an ever growing number
Kenneth@lycanmatriarch @RandomDamage @mattblaze An Aztec QR-code LED clock of such would be nifty, whatever base you chose. Wouldn’t be human-readable, but that’s besides the point.
enmodo ⚛️ 🧬 🇺🇦 🍉@RandomDamage @mattblaze I'm with Daniel on this. ISO dates are the way to go and it is trivial to accept if Pi day is to be an annual day then you make the year a wild card match. "Fake holiday" problem solved.
IMO the only other valid solution would be to celebrate day 314 of each year which would be November 10th except in a leap year when it's November 9th.
@enmodo @RandomDamage @mattblaze
The correct day is 22 of July. No discussion possible.
kauer@kauer @viktorbir @RandomDamage @mattblaze otherwise known as February 27th... You see I can swing both ways when it comes to pi.
@kauer @enmodo @RandomDamage @mattblaze
Closer to pi than the 3,14 aproximation.
Piloot@enmodo @RandomDamage @mattblaze Another solution would be to only celebrate Pi Approximation Day (22/7). After all, 3.14 is also only an approximation.
@Piloot @RandomDamage @mattblaze well everyone celebrates their birthday on an entire day which is only an approximation for an infinitely precise moment in time 🙂
So we are discussing fractional vs decimal approximation.
Given 22/7 to six decimal places is 3.142857 that's an error of 0.001265 and 3.14 is an error of -0.001592
So in absolute terms 22/7 is 1.25% more accurate than 3.14. Not much but I guess the fractions have it.
@Piloot @RandomDamage @mattblaze meanwhile, speaking of approximations, may I introduce you in a little saying:
"How I want a drink
alcoholic of course
After the heavy lectures
involving complex functions"
count the letters in each and you get...
3.14159265358979
and that's not even the longest version. See: http://cadaeic.net/naraven.htm
@Piloot @RandomDamage @mattblaze by the way, we haven't even gotten into discussions of Tau Day... https://tauday.com/
⁂Krafty⁂ #NoKings@RandomDamage @mattblaze of course by that logic, the TRUE pi day would occur on 3145-11-26!
@tkk13909 @RandomDamage Exactly. ISO dates start with the 4 digit year. 3145 is a LONG way away.
Also, don't get me started on the Y10K problem they're setting us up for.
sxpert@RandomDamage @mattblaze @tkk13909 imagine all the cobol developers they’ll be franctically thawing by 9990 🤣
SPAM 
r00t f0lds Team# 258829 @mattblaze it's still cool to celebrate Einstein's birthday though, right?
BruceI use the word, "dumb" instead. Comparable to April 20.
username@bruce_korb consider using another word maybe https://hbr.org/2020/12/why-you-need-to-stop-using-these-words-and-phrases
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I have limits on my willingness to be linguistically correct. Yes, I know it originally refers to a speaking disability. That is not what the word means anymore. Word meanings change over time. "Dumb" also means "intellectually challenged" but it is far shorter.
Dana Myers@mattblaze I can see it now, state legislators changing Pi to 14.Mar
John Francis@mattblaze it's really always on Feb 3rd a year in the future
Michigander 
@mattblaze It’s too bad April doesn’t have 31 days because then we would have an excuse to eat Pie on two days but it doesn’t so….does that mean I can eat your slice today? 😀
Michael Dwyer@mattblaze
I'm not gonna celebrate until 22/7.
I'm not gonna celebrate until 22/7.
Lot⁴⁹@mattblaze Same group was probably responsible for 9/11
Miss Purple@mattblaze awww but it’s a fun day still no? 😂 an excuse to eat pie? Sign me up!
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸Me in 2009: Yay it's Pi Day that's how we know I'm a nerd and you are too!
Me in 2023: [your toot]