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Japan is on its own wavelength. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by spicytuna62@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Japan isn't on its own wavelength, most of East Asian does this, probably because they all decided they wanted to be like China: which was a government which governed more. https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o?t=1m7s

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[–] spencer@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey… it sorts properly alphabetically

[–] nightdice@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Only within the same century, which is an issue for those of us born last millennium (or managing systems from that time), and could be a real problem in 50-ish years when we could get the first duplicates.

Better to stick with YYYY-MM-DD for alphabetical sorting

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[–] EPBJ@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

May I chime in with a DD MMM YYYY as in 22 NOV 2023

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I chime in with a "haven't you people ever heard of... DDMMMYYY?"

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[–] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SQL HAS ENTETED THE CHAT;

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[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Its the same for all East Asian countries as well, but I guess slapping JAPAN on it means fast upvotes, like that "Place, Japan" meme.

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[–] solidsnake2085@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Military be like 23/NOV/2023

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The right answer is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

[–] ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

It makes sense to either go general to specific or specific to general. MM-DD-YYYY is neither.

[–] bappity@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

YY/MM/DD SUPREMACY

[–] doctorspike@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

TIL that I'm Japanese

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

China does this too. I love getting files in this format.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

How about 0xYYYMDD or 0xYYYYMDD if you need years after 4095 for some reason.

Today is 0x7e7b16

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[–] exixx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

There is of course a relevant xkcd page

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