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Japan is on its own wavelength. (lemmy.world)
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[–] AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Japan I can get behind but MM/dd/yyyy is just evil, why would you sandwich days between months and years? You monster

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm an ISO 8601 guy but the MM/DD does make sense in American. We'll say Oct 20th for a date and then straight translate that to numbers 10/20. It makes more sense than counting in French. Ex. 60, 70, 80, 90

[–] Littleborat@feddit.de 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Counting in French is an incredibly low benchmark. Nice try!

[–] First@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Littleborat@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

They should just introduce a new system. Noone likes five halves of twenty for fifty. I guarantee it.

Just indroduce English numbers, the end.

[–] 15liam20@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It makes more sense than Monty Python.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The only reason I could see is if you were speaking it. September 18th 2012 for example might sound a bit better than 18 September 2012.