Us metric people usually say it in meters. I’m one meter 86.

Bake in metric and rejoice when recipes actually work!

wait you don’t use scales when cooking???

I never understood why people get their panties in a twist when I use 24h times. I get that it’s confusing if I drop the colon and just write 1854, but 18:54 isn’t that hard to figure out, is it?

Edit: Corrected 25h to 24h, thanks to MindTraveller for mocking pointing out my error

Temperature was the first thing that really clicked for me, and the only one I never have to think about to translate, I just “know” what the temperature is both. I learned it by thinking of it as percentages. 0 is freezing, 0% of boiling. 100 is boiling, 100% of boiling. Lol. 30-40% of boiling is hot, and pretty good for a bath. Haha

It works pretty good, and you eventually you figure out which of your friends don’t actually like you! Lmao

It’s standardized now

Things like woodworking are exactly where the imperial system came from. Because daily usable lengths like a foot are using base 12 not base 10, it can be divided much more evenly even before needing fractions.

Also known as “Not enough” XD

Wow, that’s amazing!

Don’t tell me… Tuesday.

https://xkcd.com/1179/

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way to long just short it down: 3248

clearly the best way to show date

How do you abbreviate a date in YYYY/MM/DD format?

In the DD/MM/YYYY format I can tell someone I am available to meet on 26/07; the year is known contextually as it only changes once a year.

If I start to tell people I am available 26/07 am I available for all of July in 2026?

That said, the same thing can be done with metric by using the magical decimal, though idk if I’ve ever seen a temperature in C related that way.

People using Celsius that ever cared that temperatures didn’t add decimals for increased precision in weather reports, please raise your hand.

What? 1 °C is absolutely a fine enough stepping for everything the average human will want to convey about temperature.

@prettybunnys @startrek I can tell a difference of 1 C more than I can 1 degree F. And living in a climate where it freezes in winter, it makes far more sense to me that a massively important environmental change is marked by 0 than by 32.

For weather prediction it usually isn’t that accurate anyway, and varies over time and location a lot.

For the thermostat it does matter, but usually you can set these in steps of 0.5°C. Mine reports back in 0.1°C steps.

@CancerMancer
Very much depends on both the humidex and wind chill. Basically, it’s the ‘feels like’ temperature that matters rather than the literal one.

Next you’re going to suggest that 2000 should come immediately after 1000 (instead of 1001) because we read left-to-right.

People be hatin but I agree. in instances where the only goal is for a human to read the date, dd-mm-yyyy or even dd mmm(m) yyyy are better UX.

Putting the year first makes archiving easier. Your computer literally puts everything in order that way. Day first, and it will be sorted by the most frequently changing element.

Also year first allows you to timestamp your files, so they are sorted by what time you created them that day.

Sorting by day, at the end of the year you’ll have files from the first day of each month grouped together, then the second day, and so on. Still searchable, but not as orderly.

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I agree.

TIL.

For purposes of this post though, RFC 3339 and ISO8601 are identical. Dates in the format YYYY-MM-DD, so 2024-08-29 is both RFC3339 and ISO8601 compliant.

Not an expert, just spent around 2 minutes looking at ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/

that’s already how i save versions of my files. dd-mm-yy doesn’t make sense with files.

Well bully for them. They aren’t 'Murica, and you can’t make us do anything we don’t want to!

/s but not really. It’s far too accurate for far too many of my countrymen

Sure, other countries do and that’s fine too. I’m not saying it’s good or bad or placing any value on it because it’s not that big of a deal to me. And I used to regularly deal with this because I’d write dates for official international paperwork pretty often.

I’m simply saying the reason we order our dates the way we do, and are resistant en masse to changing it, has to do with the way we say the date and so it makes the most sense to the general public to write as we speak. I literally don’t care how the date is written because I can and have done both. I’m not prescribing action here either.

Yeah linguistics are interesting for sure!

Right, we’d automatically just say September 19th here.

It’s also why we say September 11th, and why “4th of July” is said the way it is - it’s a special day so it gets ordered differently to draw attention to it and to make it appear like a more formal holiday, since saying Day of Month is considered a more formal way of speaking here. Juneteenth also follows the Month/Day naming scheme.

“Today is Saturday the 31st of August, 2024”

No one says that in the US like that lol. Like say that sentence out loud, that’s so long and exhausting and stilted for no reason. If my friend said the date to me like that, i would think they were upset about something or being weird. We’d automatically switch it over and say “August 31st, 2024,” or even “8/31/24” because when people ask for the date while writing a check, for instance, they are going to write it numerically anyway.

Idk what’s the point of your argument. To gaslight me in how everyday Americans talk?

“31st of what?”

You had to invite the other speaker in this scenario to mirror your format before they’d actually imitate the stilted way of saying “31st of August.” Not even in your fantasies do Americans talk like that naturally.

I’m not even saying we SHOULD keep it that way - it makes things confusing at times. Just that common use has kept it ordered this way.

Story of my account. These words exist as a monument of spite

Just draw it wrong and it will make sense!

No, the most important part is having a standard to conform to that makes sense, like ISO 8601…

If that were true, intercalary months shouldn’t have been necessary.

Keeping them around is a sensible fail-safe in case some nuclear power sets us back into the dark ages.

Honestly can’t tell if you are joking but I really hope you are

I disagree, and would argue that both are about equally frequent. For example, my phone shows °C in the weather widget, while the weather app only uses °. That does not change the fact that the actual unit is °C, and that would not change even if the whole world switched away from °F, and your original comment about the display having °C implying that °F still exists is therefore incorrect.