100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay I live in the US and work with people in the US mostly. I have taken to writing dates in DD Mon YYYY format. It’s just got the least ambiguity and also the D-M-Y progression makes way more sense.
Not that this American custom is the only uniquely backwards one
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@renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux What are you, Canadian?
@wendinoakland @Natasha_Jay @stux aspiring, yes! married one, to boot! It’s all in the master plan! Canadians get it, casually bopping back and forth, no one is confused.
Let’s leave the fuddy duddy “this is the way it SHOULD be, dang it” commentary to the fuddy duddy conservatives.
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@danoss777
How do you distinguish between 17 december 1998 and 17 december 2098 then? @Natasha_Jay@apenkop @Natasha_Jay Humanity will be long gone by then, but the AI overlords can use dreadful YYYY-MM-DD
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@apenkop @Natasha_Jay Humanity will be long gone by then, but the AI overlords can use dreadful YYYY-MM-DD
@danoss777 @Natasha_Jay
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@wendinoakland @Natasha_Jay @stux aspiring, yes! married one, to boot! It’s all in the master plan! Canadians get it, casually bopping back and forth, no one is confused.
Let’s leave the fuddy duddy “this is the way it SHOULD be, dang it” commentary to the fuddy duddy conservatives.
@renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux
Sometimes it’s metric, others it’s imperial. Let’s just get it done. It must be confusing to live between two such extremely different “parents”. 
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@renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux
Sometimes it’s metric, others it’s imperial. Let’s just get it done. It must be confusing to live between two such extremely different “parents”. ️@wendinoakland @Natasha_Jay @stux I like it! It makes it more fun to mix. Heck same in the states! 2 liter of coke, gallon of milk, running a 5K, bike riding a 20 miler.
Life’s short, variety is the spice of life!
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@wendinoakland @Natasha_Jay @stux I like it! It makes it more fun to mix. Heck same in the states! 2 liter of coke, gallon of milk, running a 5K, bike riding a 20 miler.
Life’s short, variety is the spice of life!
@renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux I lived overseas for a while, so I cook in metrics, but it’s always a mix!
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@renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux I lived overseas for a while, so I cook in metrics, but it’s always a mix!
@wendinoakland @Natasha_Jay @stux samsies, lived in Hong Kong for a stretch and have been lucky to travel a lot and it’s always fun to see how locals roll.
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay and the imperial system!
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay 20% auf alles, ausser ISO-Date.
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay I eagerly await the positive impacts this tariff would have in the computer firmware industry
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@renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux
Sometimes it’s metric, others it’s imperial. Let’s just get it done. It must be confusing to live between two such extremely different “parents”. ️@wendinoakland @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux
NASA lost the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1999 due to a fatal mix-up between English (feet, pounds) and metric (meters, Newtons) units, where contractor software used English measurements for thruster force while NASA expected metric, causing the orbiter to enter Mars' atmosphere too low and burn up, a classic example of unit conversion error.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-climate-orbiter/
$327.6 million
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@wendinoakland @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux
NASA lost the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1999 due to a fatal mix-up between English (feet, pounds) and metric (meters, Newtons) units, where contractor software used English measurements for thruster force while NASA expected metric, causing the orbiter to enter Mars' atmosphere too low and burn up, a classic example of unit conversion error.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-climate-orbiter/
$327.6 million
@amiserabilist @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux Wasn’t that a critical error with the Hubble Telescope lens? (I’m suggesting you do the research…)
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay if we used date format like jan/19/2026 it wouldn't be an issue
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@wendinoakland @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux
NASA lost the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1999 due to a fatal mix-up between English (feet, pounds) and metric (meters, Newtons) units, where contractor software used English measurements for thruster force while NASA expected metric, causing the orbiter to enter Mars' atmosphere too low and burn up, a classic example of unit conversion error.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-climate-orbiter/
$327.6 million
@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @Natasha_Jay @stux Hey, I said be fluid, not stupid!
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I still have my proposal for separator to indicate format as a compromise:
DD.MM.YYYY,YYYY-MM-DDandMM/DD/YYYY. This disambiguates the ones withYYYYat the end, as long as we can get americans to stop using.sometimes randomly.And what do you with "DD/MM/YYYY"?
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@amiserabilist @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux Wasn’t that a critical error with the Hubble Telescope lens? (I’m suggesting you do the research…)
@wendinoakland @amiserabilist @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux I happen to know an extremely skilled optical engineer
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@amiserabilist @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux Wasn’t that a critical error with the Hubble Telescope lens? (I’m suggesting you do the research…)
@wendinoakland The Hubble Telescope uses a large, 2.4-meter (8-foot) primary mirror, not a lens
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@wendinoakland The Hubble Telescope uses a large, 2.4-meter (8-foot) primary mirror, not a lens
@stux @amiserabilist @renwillis @Natasha_Jay Maybe it was the mirror…? There was some metric/imperial measurement error on a critical Hubble element
