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How about March Fourteenth as "American PI-Day" and 22.07. as "international, sensible and widely understood PI-Day", each according to the used date format?
77 9 ReplyA third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.
20 0 Reply22/07 is already known as "Pi Approximation Day"
7 0 Reply"widely understood" maybe in certain circles hehe
2 0 ReplyImagine acting superior about a date format.
3 7 ReplyNo need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior
11 2 ReplyDD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that's a superior format.
6 0 ReplyAlso the date format used organically in East Asia because of the cultural habit of writing big to small.
English tends small to big, so I don't know where yanks got their date format from.
2 0 ReplyCan you elaborate on that last part? I fail to think of anything where its natural for English to go from small units to big units.
2 0 ReplyAddresses is the main one.
But also when talking about objects and categories, e.g. "the oak is a type of tree", not "trees have a type which is oak".
3 0 ReplyGreat examples! Thanks!
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