Months are dumb. Inconsistent lengths, the names are out of sync (OCTober isn't month 8), pretend to be based on lunar cycles but not, etc.
Give us Year/Day date formats. Extra new year holiday on leap years.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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In theory yes stupid, in practice I've never been confused once. Its fine guys, why's it such a massive issue for everyone?
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. Americans write the date the way we would say it. August 9th 2023.
Generally speaking you're usually from 0 to 720 hours in a month: how many time in a year you have to remind people what month they are into vs. the single day?
Guy A: "Hey, what day is it?"
Guy B: "It's Sunday, the 13th."
Guy A: "Of...?" (gesturing to keep going)
Guy B: "Ah, right, we're just 390 hours into August. You may have missed that."
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Wait, you mean the last 2 are, in all fact, the same, exact, thing?
Yes.
That's what kills me about people who rag on Americans.
We order our dates the way we say them, and we use a temperature system is a great way to describe feeling heat.
I've got no defense for imperial measurements beyond scooping up a cup of flour is easier than dumping it on a scale.
But people spend more energy shitting on the cultural norms of Americans than anyone else (especially Europeans) and then spend a lot of time telling us we have no culture.
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I don't think it's an entirely ridiculous format.