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Imperial system is fucked
american date format is fucked (mm/dd/yyyy)

why did we let them do any of this?

by rating, I mean relating. But my American phone autocorrected it wrong

rating to

Sorry can't hear you over my 16oz burger

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Except for the fact Americans have to put their failed formats on everything I read

Kloe_Rinz posted...

american date format is fucked (mm/dd/yyyy)

No.

This is the one Americanism I would force upon the world if I could. The day is tucked away in the middle because it's the least important.

June 28th sounds better than 28 June

WorsCaseOntario posted...

June 28th sounds better than 28 June

That hurts just to read.

>_<

FortuneCookie posted...

No.

This is the one Americanism I would force upon the world if I could. The day is tucked away in the middle because it's the least important.

Hey guys Im ready for the event on 2/4/2022

is that April or February you American? Use something unambiguous like 2022-04-02
theres no reason not to use unambiguous dates. The American date format is one of the worst things they do and worse than the rest of the imperial system

last name, first name sucks as well

Its half 6 innit mate

Kloe_Rinz posted...

is that April or February you American? Use something unambiguous like 2022-04-02

Is 04 the month or the day? Shifting the year to the front doesn't remove ambiguity.

It's even called imperial lol. "Let's measure everything and make everything measurable"

When was metric invented?

Damn TC dropping some straight fucking heat itt

You just can't critique the left at all, too righteous. Doesn't ANYONE find that weird?

TC seething

FortuneCookie posted...

Is 04 the month or the day? Shifting the year to the front doesn't remove ambiguity.

Nobody has ever misinterpreted ISO 8601

even if youre working with Americans who are being considerate and say this is American format in this time zone (they usually arent), they dont tell you that its daylight savings time so it still fucks it all up. Again, Americans fucked the system and should never have been allowed a say in this because they did it bad

MedeaLysistrata posted...

When was metric invented?

The metric system was invented in 1795. The imperial system came about around 1878.

The Imperial system came from the U.K.

Britain even wants to bring it back.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-wants-revive-imperial-measurements-mark-queens-jubilee-2022-05-30/

008Zulu posted...

The metric system was invented in 1795. The imperial system came about around 1878.

Based on my quick search, that guy had been working it much earlier

"In 1670, Mouton proposed a decimal system of measurement that French scientists would spend years further refining."

Kloe_Rinz posted...

american date format is fucked (mm/dd/yyyy)

DD/MM/YYYY is completely backwards and can go die in a fire, no better than the American system

of course, YYYY/MM/DD is by far the best

Oh my bad I confused their previous decimal system with the metric system...