Actual poster from 1917 that made me laugh. A lot.

Also, those motherfuckers are measuring the weight of those balls in kilograms, aren’t they?

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    I believe in some countries in the world, the year goes first, then the month, then the day (2024/08/08 or 2024, August 8). Seems more logical to me than the literal inverse (08/08/2024 or 8 August 2024).

    But yeah, the metric system reigns supreme.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      36·
      4 months ago

      Year, month, day is the most logical. I’ll stand by month, day, year as being more logical than day, month, year because it’s somewhat more sorted lol.

      • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        I mean, I’m fine with the long form (August 8, 2024), but definitely not the short form, which today looks indistinguishable from DD/MM/YYYY anyway. I often think it’s the other way around and ask “since when was there a 26th month??”.

      • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
        61·
        4 months ago

        How in the world is (month/day/year) more sorted than (day/month/year)? I see two use-cases: Sorting things chronologically, in which case you want YYYY/MM/DD, or referring to nearby dates, where the year or even month can be assumed known implicitly, in which case you use DD/MM/YYYY. In no sane world does MM/DD/YYYY make sense.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          01·
          4 months ago

          Because you put big numbers first! Three hundred twenty one is written 321 not 1, 20, and 300. 21 and 300 is more sorted. MM/DD/YYYY only has one element out of place instead of being totally backwards.

          • oo1@lemmings.worldEnglish
            11·
            4 months ago

            Big numbers first is not the only way to sort - look at say how they sort the speeds of runners in a race.

            If it is “backwards”, it is sorted, in reverse order. If it has an element out of place it is not sorted.

            It’s only when they extend to hh:mm:ss dd/mm/yyyy that it becomes assorted. They need to fully commit and either use tzmm:tzhh+ fff.ss:mm:hh dd/mm/yyyy or just use fucking iso 8601. Fuck everyone who doesn’t; fuck M$, fuck oracle, fuck humans.