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But I thought that the EU outlawed bendy bananas.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Repost from the worthless things on wikipedia thread, I dunno what wiki page this is from. You can play through Europe as Donkey Kong, Chunky Kong, or Lanky Kong.
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HookShot posted:Canada is fully "there is no exact standard so you have to guess if it's a date that's before the 13th of any given month" There are many things you can say about Québec, but god bless it they use more consistent systems than the rest of the country. Anglo Canada doesn't get nearly enough poo poo for functionally using a horrible mixed US system. When I went to college in Ontario I was all ready to flex my dd/mm/yyyy skills only to realize that all the instructors and all the students use mm/dd/yyyy Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Apr 24, 2021 |
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Apr 24, 2021 22:44
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Canada really is US lite Also here is the (terrible) Wikipedia page that I got that map from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:There are many things you can say about Québec, but god bless it they use more consistent systems than the rest of the country. Anglo Canada doesn't get nearly enough poo poo for functionally using a horrible mixed US system. yeah everything here is essentially arbitrary. height is inches, distances are KM; bodyweight is pounds if you're talking to people but KG if you're talking to a doctor; F for cooking, C for outdoor temp. All the confusion of Imperial without even being consistent about it.
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Muscle Tracer posted:i had an insurance co in Canada ask me for the date in MMMDDYYYY. that's right, a three-digit month. JAN FEB MAR etc.
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Muscle Tracer posted:yeah everything here is essentially arbitrary. height is inches, distances are KM; bodyweight is pounds if you're talking to people but KG if you're talking to a doctor; F for cooking, C for outdoor temp. All the confusion of Imperial without even being consistent about it. This has been true everywhere I've lived or spent enough time to notice. I've seen various degrees of metric use but never been to a country that actually uses metric exclusively.
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Grand Fromage posted:This has been true everywhere I've lived or spent enough time to notice. I've seen various degrees of metric use but never been to a country that actually uses metric exclusively. May I introduce you to a country called the french republic
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 Edgar Allen Ho posted:May I introduce you to a country called the french republic Haha yup, THIS. No self-respecting Frenchman is going to ever use that bullshit imperial system invented by the English when we invented the perfect system to use instead 
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Apr 25, 2021 03:08
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My work uses [day].[roman numeral month].[year] example: 24.IV.2021 Does anyone else anywhere use this?
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Pekinduck posted:My work uses [day].[roman numeral month].[year] That is the first time I have ever seen something like that.
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Pekinduck posted:My work uses [day].[roman numeral month].[year] Do you work in Ancient Rome
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:May I introduce you to a country called the french republic Which one? Also how big are their screens, and how long does a news broadcast last?
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Apr 25, 2021 11:58
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Pekinduck posted:My work uses [day].[roman numeral month].[year] I think that's one of the options in Windows/Excel but luckily I've never seen it used in the wild, otherwise the only option would be 
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Platystemon posted:But I thought that the EU outlawed bendy bananas. On the contrary : Because of Brexit, the western tip of the blue banana shifted from London to Paris. It's much bendier now.
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BonHair posted:I think the two systems are: Oh my friend, you lucky, lucky soul. Let me tell you about the broadcast calendar, the only calendar capable of starting the year with last years days. Barudak fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Apr 25, 2021 |
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If we aren't putting year first the roman numeral thing is kind of an elegant solution tbhBonHair posted:Which one? Also how big are their screens, and how long does a news broadcast last? the average news broadcast lasts about an hour, one hundredish minutes, obviously Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Apr 25, 2021 |
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Apr 25, 2021 13:21
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Use dozenal numerals.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:If we aren't putting year first the roman numeral thing is kind of an elegant solution tbh Only if the year begins in March
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Platystemon posted:Use dozenal numerals. Christmas is on C-25?
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Abolish years and months, use hex. See you on B4CD3 CE!
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Abolish years and months, use hex. See you on B4CD3 CE! BIVCDIII
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Platystemon posted:Use dozenal numerals. Huh. Maybe we should switch to base 12 Pekinduck posted:My work uses [day].[roman numeral month].[year] Wow Count Roland fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Apr 25, 2021 |
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Count Roland posted:Huh. Maybe we should switch to base 12 This is a good idea in all cases. Imagine having a third be expressible as a finite decimal. It would require a new metric system though.
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You haven’t lived until you have abbreviated the months of September to December as “7ber” to “10ber” in the fashion of clerks in the sixteenth and seventeenth century.
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Any new system would inevitably just become another alternative. No way everyone would consolidate on one system, rather it just makes things more difficult with another alternative. Same thing with OpenID, no?
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Unix epoch, bitches
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Muscle Tracer posted:i had an insurance co in Canada ask me for the date in MMMDDYYYY. that's right, a three-digit month. The US military used to do something similar, the standard format was something like 25APR21 but I'm told they've switched to YYYYMMDD.
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Soviet Commubot posted:The US military used to do something similar, the standard format was something like 25APR21 but I'm told they've switched to YYYYMMDD.
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Barudak posted:Oh my friend, you lucky, lucky soul. All this talk about the broadcast calendar, but none about the broadcast clock which is where the real action is. Why worry whether "3:30AM Saturday" is the 3:30AM you get staying up Friday or the 3:30AM you get staying up Saturday, when it can just be 27:30 Friday?
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The US military is a Trojan horse, allowing France to inexorably supplant US culture. I'm trying to pinpoint the exact moment in American history where people would be the most mad at you for saying this. It's either 2003, or, like, 1803.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The US military is a Trojan horse, allowing France to inexorably supplant US culture. 
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The US military is a Trojan horse, allowing France to inexorably supplant US culture. That's what the Franks do.
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BonHair posted:Which one? Also how big are their screens, and how long does a news broadcast last? I was curious about the screens thing, looks like the French use inches for monitor size at least. 
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There's a lot of minor inch uses like screens or bicycle parts. Yards also exist in football and nowhere else
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:BIVCDIII 
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Mandoric posted:All this talk about the broadcast calendar, but none about the broadcast clock which is where the real action is. Why worry whether "3:30AM Saturday" is the 3:30AM you get staying up Friday or the 3:30AM you get staying up Saturday, when it can just be 27:30 Friday? .... Why not just, you know, 03:30 on Saturday? To prevent ambiguities with the time on the afternoon, you could say it's 15:30 on the Saturday
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Screens are universally in inches because the American market was the primary one I think, and no one bothered to change it. I also don't have any real understanding of what the size actually means, it's just 27 inches is a big computer screen or whatever. Guitar hex keys are either metric or inches depending on brand and/or production location. It's annoying.
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From the top of my head, in France we only use inches for tv and computer screens, as well as car wheels 
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Pekinduck posted:My work uses [day].[roman numeral month].[year] A Polish thing isnt it?
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