100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
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fair enough:
The primary cause of this discrepancy was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit, contrary to its Software Interface Specification (SIS), while a second system, supplied by NASA, expected those results to be in SI units, in accordance with the SIS. Specifically, software that calculated the total impulse produced by thruster firings produced results in pound-force seconds. The trajectory calculation software then used these results – expected to be in newton-seconds (incorrect by a factor of 4.45)[2] – to update the predicted position of the spacecraft.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure
@amiserabilist @u0421793 @Natasha_Jay @stux @wendinoakland I don’t know what’s happening anymore and I want off the ride now.
Kiss in metric, fuck in imperial, and let the rest fall where they may on the short blip of time we have on this planet.
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@amiserabilist @u0421793 @Natasha_Jay @stux @wendinoakland I don’t know what’s happening anymore and I want off the ride now.
Kiss in metric, fuck in imperial, and let the rest fall where they may on the short blip of time we have on this planet.
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them."
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
Oh and AM/PM time. In some things that are unusably poorly translated to Russian, I have to set my language to en_GB just to get 24-hour time format.
The fun part is that Americans even use 24-hour time but only in the military apparently.
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@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux what’re you on about? England uses metric measurements, we (all of the UK not just England) is a hard-metric nation. The only English people using imperial measurements are long dead many generations ago, before decimalisation and the common market.
Britain went decimal in the middle of the reign of Queen Euston, I mean Victoria, with the long-fought for introduction of the Florin, which was our first decimal coin. It kept getting vetoed over and over, since the first proposals some centuries prior to that.sorry it took me this long to notice the sarcasm.
i have been on here all day avoiding being a responsible adult.
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
Quite right
YYYY MM DD Month Day 23:59 format like sensible filenames.
Easy Peasy to find and divide into yearly folders, subbed into monthly if there are too many.
Plus tariff the crap out of the US Imperial system.
Sell in metric or not at all. I have handy dandy conversion apps and a dual read tape measure.
They HAD to be difficult, not just simplifying the English language into gibberish, but changing the units too.
Frankly the UK had to go metric just to piss the Yanks off; not that we have completely of course.
Note to other replies: the UK has been a hybrid for around 60 years.
The paper size system changed in 1959, A4 replaced foolscap, we didn't use Letter which the Yanks do.
Roads are in miles, beer in pints, shorts in gills and a lot of people think F in hot weather C in cold weather, inches - feet - yards are still commonplace.
A UK Gallon is 8 pints, made up of 20 fluid ounces / 1750ml.
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@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux what’re you on about? England uses metric measurements, we (all of the UK not just England) is a hard-metric nation. The only English people using imperial measurements are long dead many generations ago, before decimalisation and the common market.
Britain went decimal in the middle of the reign of Queen Euston, I mean Victoria, with the long-fought for introduction of the Florin, which was our first decimal coin. It kept getting vetoed over and over, since the first proposals some centuries prior to that.@u0421793 @amiserabilist @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux And yet the prevalence of “stones” continues
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@u0421793 @amiserabilist @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux And yet the prevalence of “stones” continues
i missed the sarcasm too at first:
"Britain went decimal in the middle of the reign of Queen Euston, I mean Victoria, with the long-fought for introduction of the Florin, which was our first decimal coin. It kept getting vetoed over and over, since the first proposals some centuries prior to that."
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@Natasha_Jay
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay Also applies to ‘momentarily’ meaning ‘in a short while’ as opposed to ‘for an instant’.
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay @Gargron And on Fahrenheit temperatures.
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@amiserabilist @NickGates @glasspusher It’s SOMEPLACE.
@wendinoakland @amiserabilist @NickGates
No Man did this to me!
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@sloanlance @Natasha_Jay
good idea!let's ban celsius and km/h measurements, and replace them proper metric units. kelvins and m/s.
@zetabeta @Natasha_Jay
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay yes please
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay the MM/DD/YY format always seemed the dumbest way to write the date and really irritates me when something defaults to it
There is no logic to it as far as I can see
DD/MM/YY and YY/MM/DD at least have logic to their layouts
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay That actually makes sense and therefore will never happen in today’s crazy world.
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay YES!!!!! It is so confusing. DD/MM/YY is totally logical.
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@Natasha_Jay I would wage an actual war on the MM/DD/YY format, but it would be confused about when the war even began.
Start it on 26/01/26. In longer date formats it is expressed as the day after Haggis Day. (-:
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@Natasha_Jay I eagerly await the positive impacts this tariff would have in the computer firmware industry
The fun part of that is that a necessary pre-cursor would be going back to get ISO 8601:1988 ratified almost a decade earlier than it was in our universe.
The sad part is that, conversely, in our universe ANSI X3.30-1971 and FIPS PUB 4 had standardized YYYYMMDD years before the IBM PC was invented.
#ISO8601 #DateFormats #TimeTravel #retrocomputing #FIPS #ANSI #FIPSPub4
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@Natasha_Jay "I used to not be political until the radical left started forcing DD/MM/YY down our throats, now for some reason I have strong opinions on the value of an ethnically diverse society."
ANSI X3.30-1971 (YYYYMMDD) was indeed ratified during the administration of that well-known Commie radical, #RichardNixon.
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