Gregory's Server@saramg @lmgenealogy …and start writing your dates the same way as every other country.
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@lmgenealogy @saramg Much like lots of our language we likely moved to distance ourselves from the US when they went their own way. I like that our date is more human-relevant yet we use Celsius for temperature. The US use human-relevant Fahrenheit but then mess up their dates! @del @lmgenealogy I was ready to agree right up until "Friday" by itself. I have had WAY too many arguments with people using that variant incorrectly. e.g. "No, not tomorrow-friday, the next friday, if I meant tomorrow-friday I'dda said tomorrow!" Which just makes my engineer brain scream. @del @lmgenealogy Written dates though.... I'm less inclined to exclude year and will pretty much only do "5th May, 2023" or "2023-05-05" as the only unambiguous options. @lmgenealogy @del Right. That's what I mean. X/Y/Z is meaningless unless we're lucky to be talking about a date after the 12th of the month. @saramg @lmgenealogy Can I be so bold as to ask you to try and include days of the week too? People typically know their own daily or even weekly routine reasonably well but may not immediately know what day of the week an arbitrary numerical date in the future falls on. By including day of the week you provide context around the date that helps people orientate themselves and understand how the event might fit in with their life, routine and availability. 😌  Problem there being, we sure as hell don't have a standard for that in Canada. In one shopping trip and for Canadian products, I'll see best before dates ranging from 06MR2023 to MAR 06 23 to 2023MR06, along with the ever-loathed 06-03-2023 (with no indicator of what's what, so wait, is that March 6th, or June 3rd?) More than caring what the format is, I just want us to agree on one and have everyone fucking do it that way. @reay @saramg @lmgenealogy This. I was thinking of your loathed version. Everyone but the US goes day-month-year. I work for a US-based multinational US and though most of their staff are in other countries they constantly try and push the US format on us —but without any heads up that it’s not making use of our local regional settings. |
@del @saramg I agree, but I was interested to notice, while studying history in Scotland, that the system of dates now considered uniquely American was formerly used in the UK as well.