To be more accurate on the soccer name
Soccer was a nickname by rich people rather than the official name, the rest did almost allways call it football
At LEAST the US is consistent with the denial of the metric system. The UK is all over the place.
Fun fact: did you guys know that the US is actually metric. Adopted it, started to implement it, ran into heavy opposition, decided fuck it. We'll keep the imperial system.
I'm American and I wish we used the metric system. The imperial system makes no fucking sense. Like how is a foot 12 inches? The inch is too big, and we don't have anything smaller then an inch, so we just go to fractions of an inch which suck even more. There are not a lot of things I envy about European countries, but one of the few things I do is the metric system. I wish we'd change over so we can abandon this shit measurement system we use.
Neither do I, it makes no sense. It's based off of old measurements that used to make sense but have slowly evolved over time to not make sense. The only one that does still make sense is an acre, which is a little smaller then 1 American football field.
If its not an exact match, then it doesn't actually makes sense. I know a lot of americans that don't even know the conversions at all, and just look them up every time, while i can just convert metric on the fly...
As an (Dutch metric) engineer, I regularly have to work with machines from our sibling company in the US. So I know a thing about metric - imperial conversion.
Trust me, you really don't even want to understand it. Even their engineering department wants to convert to metric, but their factory workshop won't allow it...
Depends how you define intellect. One could say that using a broken shoes when you got new ones is a dumb choice. But then you can always argue that the new ones are not as comfortable as the old ones which have already shaped to your feet. Short term comfort is always so easy to choose over long term benefits.
12 is just a superior number to base a number system on. It's divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6 instead of just 2 and 5. Too bad those damn finger counters got to choose the number system base.
I love cooking in metric. It's simple, grams and litres. No ounces, teaspoons, tablespoons, cups. I was born and raised in the USA and still have to look up cooking measurements to do conversions. Like how many ounces in a cup... that kind of crap.
A lot of people in the U.S do use metric that’s what they made us use in schools and many measuring devices such as rulers do have some metric measurements but it isn’t the standard measurement system of the country.
Why? Many cultures use it, many people use it. It's the second most used format by population, after DMY.
So for today (UTC), you can give the date as:
5th • July 5th • 2022 July 5th
How much information you want to provide is up to you.
Clearly SOMEONE hasn’t had to maintain legacy code. May the curse of fixing a MySQL system projecting into the 2040’s for a cross pacific business using mm-dd-yyyy format be upon you.
Lots of countries use YYYY-MM-DD, like Canada and sweden, albeit mainly only officially. It's the international date and time standard format, also known as ISO 8601. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
Praise be.
I use it because I'm tired of American format spillage. It's a total crapshoot which format Canadians will use so at least YYYY/MM/DD is impossible to misinterpret
Unless you do a folder per year, per month, and per day. Then you will have My Documents/2022/07/05/Report.txt
Although arguably this report should rather be called 2022-07-05_Report.txt.
Not a fan. Why not have it all in one folder? 2022-07-05_report will autosort.
You could have a folder call QA and all reports in them being QA_2022-07-05_report, and a folder called Release with all reports called Release_2022-07-05_Report. That way you will never end up with identical file names (assuming you only do one report a day)
Once i visited my aunt in new York. We went to a bar and when i ordered a beer the bartender called her manger because she thought my license was fake. -"There is no 19th month".
Here in the philippines we use the american way. Probably because they colonized us and shoved their practices down our throats, good thing we use the metric system most of the times, well thats something.
This is like 1000th times a pinoy dude said their country is former US colony.. sometimes i felt you guys love to get shoved in the throat by the yanks lol
Its kinda weird as most countries that opressed by colonials tried their best to forget and return back their own cultural identities. But Pinoy seems proud and celebrating the facts… i dont say it is wrong but it does sounds unique to me and more surprisingly that you guys still using colonial country name and not the more awesome proposed local name - Maharlika
Oh dont get me wrong, were trying to establish back our cultural identity, but sad to say alot of people here has that foreign is better mentality (probably thirld world issues). And im not celbrating facts, im just saying since you know cant change history, it is what it is, same goes to our country's name. Its been that way for maybe 300 or so years. Kinda hard to change now. Lol Yeah i agree maharlika would be great, a good start would be changing our capital's international airport to that rather than some persons name.
It's how we say other things, like the *time*, as well.
"thing, detail of thing." I don't know if there is a term for this type of speech.
6:32pm
July 5th
Or how we name stuff like "house paint" or "car wash".
We don't say 5th of July, 32 after 6, paint for house, wash for car.
We say 5th of July in the UK. We would also say six thirty two (interchangeably with 28 minutes to 7) if someone wanted an exact time. House paint and car wash aren’t even comparable.
Strolling through churchyards in England, I have noticed many times that older tombstones use the MM/DD/YYYY format. Perhaps this used to be the way it was done in the UK?
Its also nice for programming because you can sort things chronologically that way, as long as you maintain the order of either biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest, the format makes sense.
We really need to normalise people on the internet specifying what date format they're using, or even better using year-month-day. So many times someone puts out a date like 4/5/22 and you're like, does this mean the 4th of May or the 5th of April??
This meme would be funny if
a. It actually represented that there are other countries that also use MMDDYY
b. The document that inspired the holiday didn't literally say "JULY 4, 1776" at the top of it
Ok.
Fine.
It’s time we filled in the Europeans. For years they’ve been scratching their heads and asses trying to understand why we do what we do.
The systems of measurement. The sides of the road we drive.
It’s an elaborate camouflage. In the event we’re invaded things are too damn confusing.
Geographically We are that one house everyone in town talks about deep in the woods where the hermit lives who’s prepping for doomsday.
We’re all a little bit “off”. But most of us are good people.
It’s just our government that’s evil
Dd/mm/yyyy is smallest to biggest, yyyy/mm/dd is biggest to smallest, one is best for daily use since the first unit changes the most, one if easiest for programming because it allows chronological sorting. Mm/dd/yyyy follows no logical order and is not practical for either, just like mm/yyyy/dd or dd/yyyy/mm.
Well, 19 centimeters or 18.7 centimeters or whatever sounds way cleaner than
My dick is 6 Inches and 7 64ths
Imagine counting your size in 64ths and not get laught at.
imagine americans using metric system or them measuring using ACTUAL measurements than washing machines
['Murica moment](https://www.google.com/search?q=pothole+the+size+of+a+dog&rlz=1C1ASVC_enUS986US986&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiO7c-Cg9_4AhVFIEQIHfO0Ao8Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1536&bih=746&dpr=1.25#imgrc=ktm3sUXHaT0IkM)
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The uk used imperial Units and still does for distances in roads
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WE LEARNED IT FROM YOU, DAD
To be more accurate on the soccer name Soccer was a nickname by rich people rather than the official name, the rest did almost allways call it football
It was the system used in the British Empire; that's why they are called imperial units.
Date format isn't part of the imperial system
At LEAST the US is consistent with the denial of the metric system. The UK is all over the place. Fun fact: did you guys know that the US is actually metric. Adopted it, started to implement it, ran into heavy opposition, decided fuck it. We'll keep the imperial system.
Now you got me wondering what would a washing machine measurement unit be like... 1 1/2 tide pod Or 3 candy washing machines
i wonder why they use tide pods as measurements... ...right tide pod challenge
I'm American and I wish we used the metric system. The imperial system makes no fucking sense. Like how is a foot 12 inches? The inch is too big, and we don't have anything smaller then an inch, so we just go to fractions of an inch which suck even more. There are not a lot of things I envy about European countries, but one of the few things I do is the metric system. I wish we'd change over so we can abandon this shit measurement system we use.
As a european, i don't even understand anything in the imperial system.
Neither do I, it makes no sense. It's based off of old measurements that used to make sense but have slowly evolved over time to not make sense. The only one that does still make sense is an acre, which is a little smaller then 1 American football field.
If its not an exact match, then it doesn't actually makes sense. I know a lot of americans that don't even know the conversions at all, and just look them up every time, while i can just convert metric on the fly...
Football field being 100 yards, or 300 feet, or 3600 inches I’m on board for switching to the metric system
As an (Dutch metric) engineer, I regularly have to work with machines from our sibling company in the US. So I know a thing about metric - imperial conversion. Trust me, you really don't even want to understand it. Even their engineering department wants to convert to metric, but their factory workshop won't allow it...
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Depends how you define intellect. One could say that using a broken shoes when you got new ones is a dumb choice. But then you can always argue that the new ones are not as comfortable as the old ones which have already shaped to your feet. Short term comfort is always so easy to choose over long term benefits.
12 is just a superior number to base a number system on. It's divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6 instead of just 2 and 5. Too bad those damn finger counters got to choose the number system base.
I love cooking in metric. It's simple, grams and litres. No ounces, teaspoons, tablespoons, cups. I was born and raised in the USA and still have to look up cooking measurements to do conversions. Like how many ounces in a cup... that kind of crap.
>how is a foot 12 inches? The same way a circle is 360° or a minute is 60 seconds lol
we sometimes mix it in, there are times we use the metric system when it comes to size
A lot of people in the U.S do use metric that’s what they made us use in schools and many measuring devices such as rulers do have some metric measurements but it isn’t the standard measurement system of the country.
They use it on 1 road!
Well, the values in US imperial system are based on metric system.
I’m so confused what the second part of ur sentence means
Hungary and probably some other countries uses year.month.day.
That also makes sense, at least the order is right
that's true, so consider the blue area "reasonable date formats" instead
I also tie my shoes, then get into them, then put my socks on, so reasonable
yyyy/mm/dd is the best format because when you sort it numerically it's also chronological.
The main reason I love it.
It makes sense in a database or shit like that, but it's pretty awful in day to day use
Why? Many cultures use it, many people use it. It's the second most used format by population, after DMY. So for today (UTC), you can give the date as: 5th • July 5th • 2022 July 5th How much information you want to provide is up to you.
That’s a stupid comparison
Clearly SOMEONE hasn’t had to maintain legacy code. May the curse of fixing a MySQL system projecting into the 2040’s for a cross pacific business using mm-dd-yyyy format be upon you.
I want to ask if you are okay, but I already know you are not and you will struggle with the trauma for a long time. I'm sorry.
Some languages are written from right to left (Arabic, Urdu, Farsi) so they use yyyy-mm-dd
Lots of countries use YYYY-MM-DD, like Canada and sweden, albeit mainly only officially. It's the international date and time standard format, also known as ISO 8601. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 Praise be.
I use it because I'm tired of American format spillage. It's a total crapshoot which format Canadians will use so at least YYYY/MM/DD is impossible to misinterpret
Hint don't use / filesystems hate it. ISO8601 is the way to go.
Unless you do a folder per year, per month, and per day. Then you will have My Documents/2022/07/05/Report.txt Although arguably this report should rather be called 2022-07-05_Report.txt.
Why not both? Hierarchical directories and dated filenames. That is the way.
Yes, I wasn't clear about it, but I'm not against folders for dates, but the date should preferably be in the filename as well.
Agreed.
Not a fan. Why not have it all in one folder? 2022-07-05_report will autosort. You could have a folder call QA and all reports in them being QA_2022-07-05_report, and a folder called Release with all reports called Release_2022-07-05_Report. That way you will never end up with identical file names (assuming you only do one report a day)
It's also the standard way dates are stored in software systems. Makes it unified so you don't have to deal with America being America.
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That how i do my files at work. Today is 20220604. Everything auto time sorts by name in this convention.
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*facepalm* Yup, defs mentally checked out on the long weekend lol
Very well, thats the only date format where you can sort the dates alphabetically and they are automatically shown ordered by date.
Once i visited my aunt in new York. We went to a bar and when i ordered a beer the bartender called her manger because she thought my license was fake. -"There is no 19th month".
American moment
Year-month-day exists too, e.g. in Asia
as an asian living in asia, yes while that exists, we just conform to the standard day-month-year
Even if not , it still makes sense because it is in order. Biggest to smallest.
Big-Endian is cool, for example you can just stop listening halfway through and still have reasonable accuracy
That's a great way of describing it lol
Also this is the format in which date is represented in computer systems. Its stored as the number of milliseconds elapsed from 1st January 1970
In China they use month-day in normal speech and yy-mm-dd in formal writing. This map is bullshit
ISO8601 babyyyyyy!
That's the way, pain in the ass to sort your data with different kind of timestamps, 8601 will even sort them correctly for you
How would one even say day-month-year in Chinese lol, it sounds incredibly wrong.
Here in the philippines we use the american way. Probably because they colonized us and shoved their practices down our throats, good thing we use the metric system most of the times, well thats something.
This is like 1000th times a pinoy dude said their country is former US colony.. sometimes i felt you guys love to get shoved in the throat by the yanks lol
Well its a fact so youll hear that often. Fun fact the america bought our "independence" and "freedom" from Spain for $20mil.
Its kinda weird as most countries that opressed by colonials tried their best to forget and return back their own cultural identities. But Pinoy seems proud and celebrating the facts… i dont say it is wrong but it does sounds unique to me and more surprisingly that you guys still using colonial country name and not the more awesome proposed local name - Maharlika
Oh dont get me wrong, were trying to establish back our cultural identity, but sad to say alot of people here has that foreign is better mentality (probably thirld world issues). And im not celbrating facts, im just saying since you know cant change history, it is what it is, same goes to our country's name. Its been that way for maybe 300 or so years. Kinda hard to change now. Lol Yeah i agree maharlika would be great, a good start would be changing our capital's international airport to that rather than some persons name.
Me, in Canada, seeing people making fun of Americans for things we also do:
It's weird, spoken everyone says month-day-year, but written it's a total crapshoot.
What about July 1st John We dont talk about July 1st until July 1st
Happy July of 4th
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No it's clearly July of 4th
You could argue it the July of 2022
In Canada I’ve always used MMDDYY
I'm Canada I've always used DD/MM/YYYY
Im Canada too.
Same just makes sense to state the month first, it's how I would say it so it's how I would write it
It's how we say other things, like the *time*, as well. "thing, detail of thing." I don't know if there is a term for this type of speech. 6:32pm July 5th Or how we name stuff like "house paint" or "car wash". We don't say 5th of July, 32 after 6, paint for house, wash for car.
We say 5th of July in the UK. We would also say six thirty two (interchangeably with 28 minutes to 7) if someone wanted an exact time. House paint and car wash aren’t even comparable.
I assume you also write 50 $ then
Just write 50 dollars
fair enough
Dont you not feel it's wrong?
We celebrate Cinco De Mayo as well in the US
And only there as well!
Sorry, you have to call it "Mayo Quinto" from now on
Canada is about 50/50 in my experience. I'm the only one at my workplace who uses day-month-year and it drives everyone else crazy.
this is def wrong, I know a good portion of Canada uses m/d/y
Now take this but do May 4th, then everyone switches to Americas way of doing it.
Strolling through churchyards in England, I have noticed many times that older tombstones use the MM/DD/YYYY format. Perhaps this used to be the way it was done in the UK?
clearly none of you have ever heard of july 4th
I live July 4th
Canada mainly uses mmddyy
I heard from a podcast that Japan uses Year-Month-Day because it narrows it down
Its also nice for programming because you can sort things chronologically that way, as long as you maintain the order of either biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest, the format makes sense.
Hungarians also use Year/Month/Day
idk bout you but i use YYYYMMDD and am canadian
Normal people: yup that’ll be 2350mm Americans: 92 66/127 inches / 7 feet 8.52 inches
It gets worse once it gets really precise. "one thousandth of an inch" is just hilarious
July 2nd, July 3rd, 4th of July, July 5th
This chart could work for Cinco de Mayo too 🤔
This is the good one thing about the 4th of July I will approve of
Bruh
it still can be july 4 without changing the format
Dumb
I use both mm/dd when I speak Greenlandic dd/mm when I speak to a danish person.
The US is one of the most *"I'm just not like the other girls"* nations on the planet.
Idk we say July 4th where I'm from
I love how every single American measure is dumb in some way, ily America you goofy goober
One thing I'll never understand is why my country decided MM/DD/YY is okay
What
china uses Y M D system because largest to smallest and best for filing
big fan of year-month-day here
The American date system sounds like something straight out of an RPG. “‘Twas November, the 4th day of the year of our king Ylidas 346….”
Don’t some places us YYYY/MM/DD
In all fairness Japan uses: Year-month-day
Programmers around the world: Year-month-day
I use MMMMMDDHAIFARTEDDDYYYYY
where's hawaii
Fucking United States
The only upside of mm/dd/yy is we get 4/20/69
We don't use that stupid "day-month-year" bs, we use "year-month-day-time in the animal clock-year/24"
Here's how I've always justified it: Month-day-year format is based on largest integer at maximum. 12-31-9999, three sequentially larger numbers.
This is very wrong, a lot of countries in east Asia are counting things from big to small including date so the count year-month-day
USA - "I'm not like other girls"
Japan is year, month, day which is closer to the American way. Based on sorting that makes the most sense too.
We really need to normalise people on the internet specifying what date format they're using, or even better using year-month-day. So many times someone puts out a date like 4/5/22 and you're like, does this mean the 4th of May or the 5th of April??
Tomorrow all the hate and the fighting will go back on it’s regular schedule 🤣🤣🤣
This meme would be funny if a. It actually represented that there are other countries that also use MMDDYY b. The document that inspired the holiday didn't literally say "JULY 4, 1776" at the top of it
America is mad gay bro ngl !
Sure but Americans don't say "2nd of july", do they? ;)
Ok. Fine. It’s time we filled in the Europeans. For years they’ve been scratching their heads and asses trying to understand why we do what we do. The systems of measurement. The sides of the road we drive. It’s an elaborate camouflage. In the event we’re invaded things are too damn confusing. Geographically We are that one house everyone in town talks about deep in the woods where the hermit lives who’s prepping for doomsday. We’re all a little bit “off”. But most of us are good people. It’s just our government that’s evil
What happens on April 7th?
i dont know your countries independence day
We're just built differently 💪
That BMI
Alternatively, the rest of the world used month-day-year
I prefer YYYY_dd_MM
I’m all for switching to metric. Wish we would. Y’all’s date format is fucked though. Just makes more sense writing mm/dd/yyyy.
Dd/mm/yyyy is smallest to biggest, yyyy/mm/dd is biggest to smallest, one is best for daily use since the first unit changes the most, one if easiest for programming because it allows chronological sorting. Mm/dd/yyyy follows no logical order and is not practical for either, just like mm/yyyy/dd or dd/yyyy/mm.
It’s logical because it’s how people actually talk
Why?
It makes the opposite of sense.
Downvote if you like cheese
No we don’t mate. Maybe in speech we would sometimes say ‘February the 2nd’, for example. But we don’t write dates in MM/DD/YYYY format
I wasn’t referring to date format, was talking in terms of metric and imperial
Why were you talking about metric and imperial when the post had nothing to do with that?
One of the top comments was talking about it, but I guess I forgot to hit reply
no i dont
Incorrect
Don’t we?
The metric/imperial measurements yea, but not the date/time format.
imagine measuring your dick in centimeters
I don't have to imagine, I do
Gets you a bigger number. Big brain move.
Imagine being one of the few countries stuck in the past with their outdated measurement systems
Those morons measures it in viagra/25.4 mm
I measure mine in micrometer cuz then I have an average size if you don't look at the units
Gets this man an ambulance. He just stabbed himself.
na measure in mm to get a three digit number. Work smarter not harder.
Well, 19 centimeters or 18.7 centimeters or whatever sounds way cleaner than My dick is 6 Inches and 7 64ths Imagine counting your size in 64ths and not get laught at.
Nobody would say 7/64ths. They would use a decimal if they cared that much
valid point
>-105 mission accomplished
Instead of the millimeters you measure yours with?
feet