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anyway, "world standards day", to celebrate international standards, was on october the 14th
unless you're in america, in which case it's next week, the 14th of november
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@tef If only the American celebration of "standards day" had been on November 5th.
@tef the wonderful thing about standards is that there’s so many of them
@tef missed opportunity. It should be October the 11th and November the 10th.