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On American Pi day, my mate sent me this...
Mar 14 at 10:31pmWeb
Show threadJon Gerdes2d ago

@bytebro So the fourteenth of March is Pi day in the US - 3/14.

Here (in *cough* Europe) it would be erm 3/14 so the the third of quatuordecember.

If you think that is odd, note that December means "tenth month" (novem is nine, octem is eight, septem is seven) and mildly curse a Roman emperor from 2000 odd years ago for being a dick.

July is named after Julius Caesar and August is named after Augustus Caesar.

Wait until Trump gets himself worked up to JC levels of wankery!

Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱2d ago

@gerdesj

Like it. Also, several people have pointed out that in the UK/EU, PI day would be July 22, and 22/7 is a better approximation of PI than 3.14. Eat your American Pi and enjoy! 🙂

Show threadJon Gerdes2d ago

@bytebro What's wrong with 31 April (31-4) in the civilized world?

If push comes to shove, we right pond types could probably come up with a forty first month and barely blush at a four hundred and forty first month.

Let's face it: a bunch of us (them over there, the French mob) invented a centimetre which is exactly 2.54 times too short, but exactly 100th of a metre, which is superb.

Bring it on!

Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱2d ago
@gerdesj
Ah. If only the month of April contained 31 days. We can dream, I suppose. But your logic is reasonable!
Show threadJon Gerdes2d ago

@bytebro I was hoping you would note that 141 months was a bit odd for a year and elide me adding a day to an inconspicuous month.

OK, got the memo. We'll have to do our own thing on this one 8)

Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱2d ago

@gerdesj

Oh our calendar is clearly 'odd', and fairly obviously in today's world 'silly'.

But it is what it is, so one either goes with a Julian date (number of days) for moderately historical stuff, or perhaps Unix Epoch (numbers of seconds) although that might become problematic in Jan 2038, depending on your sizeof(time_t)?

Personally, if a date is ever going to be 'stored', I would use an extended ISO format, so "2026-03-15T01:00:10Z" at UTC with or without an offset for timezones.