12/06/24
Wrong, the date is 2024-06-12.
2024, June 12.
Why isn’t the long form like this as well? Especially since the year is the most important info anyway when it comes to things like studying history.
Actually, on second thought, computers would organize things by alphabetical order this way which would seem weird.
Because precise dates are used much more commonly contemporaneously than they are for historical purposes. This is so true that the year is commonly omitted, as it is assumed and understood by all parties without mention.
Got it.
You don’t need the comma when you write it this way. The comma in June 12, 2024, is there exactly because it’s the wrong order.
It’s basically “I wrote the date. Oops, forgot the year!”
Computers order it correctly in that format because that’s the correct format. In the same way a computer will order any other correctly formatted numbers in the correct order - and incorrectly formatted numbers in the incorrect order - it shouldn’t be surprising that they order correctly formatted dates in the correct order.
Interesting information.
Half dozen, dozen, two dozen in the US.
It finally paid off! Today is the day our system makes sense!Patiently waiting for 2024-12-06 to repost this.
Biggest to smallest is the only sane format. yyyy-mm-dd h:m:s
Two dozen, half dozen, dozen in ISO land.
Nope Two score and two dozen, half dozen, dozen
Today’s date is 2024-06-12 and no one can tell me otherwise
ISO 8601 ftw!
It’s the only way.
The way almost everyone else does it - Americans, Europeans, etc - is just wrong.
May I introduce East Asia? They also like to do addresses top down
I mentioned etc.
Oh sorry, my point was that East Asia does it YYYY-MM-DD, with the exception of maybe some different delimiter and leading zeros depending on preference, they already coincidentally do it the ISO way!
This is what shower thoughts should be! Thank you!
Tomorrow it will be baker’s dozen, half dozen, two dozen.
And now its half dozen/baker’s dozen/two dozen in the US.
A baker’s dozen is 13.
Today is the 13th.
It’s scary how this is the way I found out
Days drag, but years fly.
Welcome to adulthood.
Today is Thursday.
Which fits, because you’d be thirsty after a baker’s dozen.
Indeed, it dozen.
It’s so good we will get it twice this year.
Twelve is such a great number. So divisible.
Several cultures throughout history have used base 12 for their numbering! You can count to 12 on one hand by counting the segments of your fingers (excluding the thumb).
