Posted on 03/09/2022 11:36:39 AM PST by fishtank
Just sayin...
In America, Pi Day is 3-14-2022
In Europe, Pi Day is 31-4-2022.
Anyone see an obvious problem here??
It was an example. Obviously in cases where the month & day are the same, it makes no difference.
Xhosa time has more of a click to it.
(I still say GMT myself; just like the old nun said, some habits are hard to get rid of.)
There is no April 31. April only has 30 days.
Talking about Japanese logic, March 14 in Japan is White Day.
” just like the old nun said, some habits are hard to get rid of”
LOL
“Soviet Union observed February 30 in 1930 and 1931.”
So, it must’ve been there and then?
I never knew this:
February 30 Was a Real Date
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/february-30.html
but what month has 28 days?
Another version of “2 + 2 = 5”, looks like to me.
It’s pie day every day at the local bakery.
If you really want to mess with people, run your clock backward, leave off the numerals, and turn it on its side. (I did that for my clock in college. I’ll admit, though, that I had to do it one step at a time in order to be able to tell the time with a quick glance.)
A Korean explained to me once. They go from general to specific. Hence 2022-3-14. But they also apply this rule to people’s names (surname first) and when addressing envelopes (country first).
Likewise. YYYYMMDD sorts well.
I like it. :)
After Julius Caesar’s reform of the Roman calendar (46 B.C.), February had 29 days in a normal year and 30 days in a leap year. But when Sextilis was renamed Augustus in honor of the emperor Augustus, he took a day from February and added it to August so that his month would be as long as July (named for Julius Caesar).
YYYY-MM-DD sorts chronologically.
In a previous life, one of my jobs was to send a random box of imported chocolate over to the Japan FDA for testing who would then pick a random piece, test it for approval and return the rest of the box. We collected them and sold them to employees for 500 yen a bag which would include several boxes worth about 10 times that much retail. I'd always take a bagful home to the wife and kids who would share it with friends and neighbors.
I always thought it amusing that the Japan FDA returned all those boxes minus one piece and once worked up the nerve to ask them why.
"If we did not," the bureaucrat told me sardonically, "it might be seen as a bribe." Makes sense when you think about it and explains why their government is much less of a kleptocracy than ours.
No problem if you’re pilingual.
I hate to break it to you, but pi day was over 400 years ago.
3-14-1592
To: Rodd OB
That’s the joke….
19 posted on 3/9/2022, 1:03:00 PM by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
Year-month-day sorts correctly, though just plain ugly.
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