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If the date format is not YYYY-MM-DD it can fuck right off.
ISO 8601. Unironically the only ISO number I also remember.
Long live I-SO! I-SO! I-SO!
I also remember as PHP programming language still won’t do it with this function: DateTimeInterface::ISO8601 DATE_ISO8601 https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetimeinterface.php#datetime.constants.iso8601
You need the DateTimeInterface::ISO8601_EXPANDED which can actually accept non compliant strings too.
PHP - wherever you see an intuitive solution it’s wrong or has important caveats.
My favorite thing about this date format is using it in file names. Sorting the files by name also sorts them by date.
Meeting notes 2023-06-29.txt Meeting notes 2023-06-30.txt Meeting notes 2023-07-01.txt
I know that they use that format in daily life in Asia but to me it’s the “computer format” for this exact reason.
Thi is the way.
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2023rd of July. Duh
In year 4
Everything is right about it:
- Lexographic sort
- Unambiguous months and days
- Acceptable on any document of record (lab, legal, medical, personal)
- Readable by nearly any culture (even us Americans)
for storing dates it’s awesome, for displaying dates it’s time to teach your programmer how to format shit for humans.
It actually is the best for displaying all-number dates to people as well because no one in their right mind will ever do yyyy-dd-mm.
So if you see the year first, you know the format. When the year is last and you see a date like 03-02-2023, you have to take into account the nationality of the author to know if it’s March 2nd or February 3rd.
But 2023-02-03 it becomes clear that it’s February 3rd.
I can’t even comprehend how dumb this image is.
100 feet in 0.27373616263 fence posts
Doesn’t that make you dumber than the image?
My brain hurt reading it lol
Just dumb enough.
Now this is the kind of shitposting I can get behind.
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I actually agree that the metric system has nice round numbers, but this graphic is a hilarious rebuttal to the first one that just draws pictures to make their preferred system look like it fits into the pretty pictures.
Two can play at that game, lol.
Eh… The graph shows
“Inches in 8.33 feet”, and those 3’s will go on forever like 8.333333333333…
Its clearly meant to be a shitpost.
It’s actually interesting, an inch is the last knuckle of your thumb, a foot is your foot, a yard is one pace (left right left) a mile is 1000 paces
But for some reason when we standardized them so everyone’s mile would be the same distance, we used a freaking giant.
Then pirates kept us from adopting the metric system
Fuck yeah. Because 100 being the temperature of a random woman measured during her menstrual cycle totally makes sense.
Ey! It was the blood temperature of a horse before that, okay?! So it’s not as if there were no improvements made at all! /s
I love the mental gymnastics which have gone into the making of this infographic. Gold!
This is cursed. I love it
Thanks! I hate it.
But in all honesty, this is almost like being inside a Canadian’s brain. I have to translate back and forth at work all the time, and even cooking involves converting things back and forth. I have no idea how many drams to a gallon, so I’ll convert ounces to mL, then scale as necessary, and then convert back to US customary because the measuring cups and spoons are labelled in American.
Same, as a Canadian I wish we just had everything in metric instead of 70% of things. If systems of units were money, metric would be paying with dollars and cents, while imperial is paying with sheep and bars of gold.
I also hate that we are loosey goosey with date formats. What day is 07/08/23??? I hate that the US uses MM/DD/YY format but at least they are consistent about it.
That’s either July 8, or August 7th. Depending on… Well. What whoever was writing it meant 😁
If systems of units were money, metric would be paying with dollars and cents, while imperial is paying with sheep and bars of gold.
😆 I’m totally stealing this.
In that case, sign me up for an imperial monetary system, that sounds awesome.
You had me at sheep.
It’s like we’re in a weird limbo between the two. Metric for distance, except height which is in feet and inches. Grams for weight, except for human weight it’s pounds (or sometimes not). Celsius for temperatures, but ovens use farenheight. Just pick one goddammit!
I am curious, what are you doing where you need to convert drams to gallons? Making mixed whiskey?
I’ve actually done this a a lot for work needing to work out operating weights of mechanical equipment and checking existing structures for capacity etc. American equipment with all imperial info and Canadian building design. It’s easy to convert, but still annoying.
Measuring cups and spoons is probably my worst international pet peeve. I do not understand why please? Why not measure with a scale like every sane being?
I like that every bar has a different scaling.
It’s an imperial log scale
How long do you have to sit on the toilet to produce one of those imperial logs?
That’s when you need to bring out the poop axe, because the poop knife just won’t cut it
You have to NOT sit on the toilet for 3 days
This picture gives me conniptions
conniptions
I had to look that one up, thank you for giving me the new word of the day!
con·nip·tion kə-ˈnip-shən. : a fit of rage, hysteria, or alarm
I thought this post was funny until I read the comments.
Nice shitpost, op
Don’t Americans normally say “4th of July”?
Only when referring to July 4th.
I may be in the minority but I tend to say “Fourth of July” to refer to the holiday but “July fourth” to refer to the date when not referencing the holiday.
“The 4th of May be with you”
Yes but only for the Fourth of July. Any other day is reversed.
“Base 12” is nice because it is easy to divide into halves, quarters, thirds as whole numbers. The rest is a bit of a mess though, I guess.
Base12 Units would be much more useful if we used Base12 numbers
60% of the time it works every time.
