cynicalsecurity Mar 14
Polite notice: today is not $\Pi$ day, there is no such date as 3.14 ‘cos there are only 12 months.
Show threadLuna Lactea
@cynicalsecurity real actually I hate the American date format
It causes way too much confusion.
Mar 14 at 4:57pmWeb
Show threadMichael WeissMar 14
@jackemled @cynicalsecurity I used to work at a company that was a merger between UK and US companies. I begged them not to use numerical shorthand dates in documents and communications for this very reason. Everyone did it anyway, with the predictable results.
Show threadLuna LacteaMar 14

@mweiss @cynicalsecurity I live in the USA, & not everyone here uses the American format (because it's bad). People who use the American format absolutely insist on it, arguing that it's the best in every way, when it can't do any of the things that day, month, year, or year, month, day can do. They're also the only ones to actually have problems reading dates because everyone else here already knows how to deal with their bullshit. "There's no thirteenth month, what is this‽"

I'm tempted to start writing dates in a new date format every time. Next I'll do a Unix timestamp, then I'll do Islamic, then Julian.