Yeah count me in, 14.3 doesn't make any sense for a πday
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
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~~well yeah, there's no 14th month~~
Tell me you are from ~~the US~~ North America without telling me
They could be from Canada too. We're in that fun zone of being mostly Oxford/metric/DMY, but due to proximity and history we still use a lot of Webster/imperial/MDY. My dad is from the past so he speaks in Fahrenheit but calls it "English". Send help.
However, saying "July 23rd" feels more natural and efficient to me than "The 23rd of July". That translates to me writing 07/23 over 23/07. To each their own though, I'm not gonna harsh any mellows over date formatting.
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But I don’t wanna bake in late July
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?
A third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.
22/07 is already known as "Pi Approximation Day"
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Fun fact: 355/113 = 3.14159...
Close enough to pi so that using it for calculating the earth's circumference from its diameter is accurate to within 3 meters.
... or to within π meters?
I chuckled
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Why have one pi day when you could have 2?
You're forgetting tau day, June 28th. That's 2*pi. Then we get 3 holidays.
for the greater good
2*pi already sounds like two holidays rolled into one!
3 is even better!
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One for sweet pies, one for savoury.
FUCK DD/MM FORMAT YYYY-MM-DD IS SUPERIOR
--ISO-8601 GANG
That's nice and helps remember it's 22/7. Americans can have their 14th of March, and let 22/7 be the international pi day.
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But Pi Day doesn't end with the day. There can be Pi Hour, Pi Minute, Pi Second, Pi Milisec...
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Half the fucking world would beg to differ
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country#Usage_map
Speaking as someone from a blue country on that map. Most of the world is wrong though. The ISO standard is designed that way for a reason. Not putting the largest unit first is just silly.
Personally I can get behind YMD and DMY (while sticking to ISO would be preferrable for obvious reasons), but what on earth possessed people to come up with MDY?
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Pretty sure that iso standard of yours specifies using what you call military time, or 24 hour time system, which USA doesn't use widely, so even they don't use this standard
What are you even talking about?
Most countries use a 24hr clock
Many countries that use a 24hr clock don’t even use ISO8601 officially.
The only countries I know officially use ISO8601 are certain East Asian countries.
I don’t think they even use ISO8601 in the US Military.
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Is this some worldly date format that I'm too American to understand?
more like a rest-of-the-worldly date format 🙃
A man with an assault rifle at an island killing 77 people, many bellow 18, kinda ruined pi-approximation day in Norway.
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But then we'd have to deal with the savage barbarism of writing it with the day before the month.
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Not in America it ain't. Nobody fucking puts the day before the month.
I think America is outnumbered on that matter.
Year/Month/Day is the way.
Month/Day/Year you should fear.
Guess ya'll just have to adapt to a better system.
Give up on imperial while you're at it too, you'll be happier in the long run.
What's the 14th month?
I have a Daughter who was born on Pi day. When she was little. she would tell you it's the second most important day, right after Christmas. Pi Day actually became a school wide fun day because of her, (small rural schools can be fun that way). We would bring a couple of pies for her math class to celebrate. Oddly, she much prefers a strawberry cheese cake for her birthday over pies.
I suspect she will NOT allow the change...........
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