Yeah count me in, 14.3 doesn’t make any sense for a πday
Well, you could do the 31st of April, but it seems the universe disagrees with your date format.
But I don’t wanna bake in late July
well yeah, there’s no 14th monthTell me you are from
the USNorth America without telling meThey could be from Canada too. We’re in that fun zone of being mostly Oxford/metric/DMY, but due to proximity and history we still use a lot of Webster/imperial/MDY. My dad is from the past so he speaks in Fahrenheit but calls it “English”. Send help.
However, saying “July 23rd” feels more natural and efficient to me than “The 23rd of July”. That translates to me writing 07/23 over 23/07. To each their own though, I’m not gonna harsh any mellows over date formatting.
as if my Florida Man posting didn’t already give it away :P
that said I have learned to prefer YYYY-MM-DD for all my cataloguing needs on computer because it sorts far more easily
Why have one pi day when you could have 2?
You’re forgetting tau day, June 28th. That’s 2*pi. Then we get 3 holidays.
looks at today’s date
…darn, I did forget Tau Day. :(
Let’s get some pies and celebrate
2*pi already sounds like two holidays rolled into one!
3 is even better!
and four pies
for the greater good
We should have approximately 3 pi days
I propose that during a 113 day period we have exactly 355 pi days. That would be an avrage of 3,14159 pi days per year
More like π days per day
One for sweet pies, one for savoury.
FUCK DD/MM FORMAT YYYY-MM-DD IS SUPERIOR
--ISO-8601 GANG
MM-DD-YY will make you cry
“In the year 3141…”
Agreed 🗣️🗣️🗣️
That’s nice and helps remember it’s 22/7. Americans can have their 14th of March, and let 22/7 be the international pi day.
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But Pi Day doesn’t end with the day. There can be Pi Hour, Pi Minute, Pi Second, Pi Milisec…
Do NOT give my one Daughter anymore ideas than she already has!
This was waaay too low
Is this some worldly date format that I’m too American to understand?
more like a rest-of-the-worldly date format 🙃
A man with an assault rifle at an island killing 77 people, many bellow 18, kinda ruined pi-approximation day in Norway.
TIL that not only is it legal to own guns in Norway, apparently you guys have a fairly high percentage of gun ownership.
Absolutely, but acquiring a weapon legally is a process involving the police and requires a sensible intent (like hunting, sports or defense against polar bears) and an approved safe storage. While there are a lot of weapons in Norway, it’s very heavily regulated.
With that said, the terror in Norway was performed with a firearm which was obtained legally with approval from the police, so the system is far from perfect.
What an oddly specific trigger. I’m sure 3/14 has a tragic past somewhere too. 🤔
It’s recent enough that it still haunts the people of the country. It’s also not an every day occurrence like in America.
I have a Daughter who was born on Pi day. When she was little. she would tell you it’s the second most important day, right after Christmas. Pi Day actually became a school wide fun day because of her, (small rural schools can be fun that way). We would bring a couple of pies for her math class to celebrate. Oddly, she much prefers a strawberry cheese cake for her birthday over pies.
I suspect she will NOT allow the change…
Not very odd. It’s traditional to use a cake for bday instead of pie.
But not for Pi Day. Having taught classrooms how to calculate Pi by tossing “frozen hot dgos” and literally timing the period of the swing of an apple pie suspended from the ceiling, it’s pies or nothing!
Jokes on you, I’m too dumb to get it!
It’s close, but the math checks out.
This… this is why we have no friends, brain:)
You’d confuse the Americans.
Half the fucking world would beg to differ
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country#Usage_map
Speaking as someone from a blue country on that map. Most of the world is wrong though. The ISO standard is designed that way for a reason. Not putting the largest unit first is just silly.
Personally I can get behind YMD and DMY (while sticking to ISO would be preferrable for obvious reasons), but what on earth possessed people to come up with MDY?
I have no idea why it started that way, but in everyday speech we say dates with the month first. So that makes MDY just the thing everybody is used to.
Fortunately the ISO format YYYY-MM-DD still has the month before the day, so I don’t have to worry about my fellow Americans getting it confused.
Pretty sure that iso standard of yours specifies using what you call military time, or 24 hour time system, which USA doesn’t use widely, so even they don’t use this standard
But then we’d have to deal with the savage barbarism of writing it with the day before the month.
then write the year before the month before the day 😈
Always do
Going by the numbers, using DD/MM is the civilised way and MM/DD the archaic one.
Not in America it ain’t. Nobody fucking puts the day before the month.
I think America is outnumbered on that matter.
Year/Month/Day is the way.
Month/Day/Year you should fear.
Remind me again what your national day is called?
July 4th, or the 4th OF July, or just Independence Day. No one calls it 4 July.
4th OF July,
So date first, then the month?
You don’t read 1/2 as “1slash2” do you? You read it as “half”, don’t you? You don’t read 3/4 as “three four” do you? You read it as “three quarters” or “three fourths”.
Because we know how to conjugate numbers from context. Like say you finish 3. in a race. Would you read “3.” as “three” or “third”?
(It’s quite ironic how often I end up having to teach Americans English, lol.)
say you finish 3. in a race
Who would even type it that way? When talking about position, the suffix isn’t ignored, either in text or speech.
As for fractions, they are just that; fractions. Divisible portions of a whole, so different rules apply to them. They can be in the plural sense as in two halves, or 3 quarters. But you don’t have a plural dates of the month, unless you’re counting multiple years. And in that case it’s month first. Like, if you were comparing this year to other years, you wouldn’t say “this was better than the last couple 4ths of July”. You’d say, “this was better than the last couple of July 4ths”
Who would even type it that way?
You’ve never seen people use ordinal numbers?
Never seen rankings of say, hand-egg players, put down as
- Namenamename
- Namenamename
- Namenamename
?
“Ordinal” as in “by order” rather than cardinal numbers. In the middle of a a sentence you’d write “third” preferably, but you might also use “3rd”. My grammatically wrong sentence was on purpose to demonstrate that you can — or at least should be able to — read ordinal numbers.
Just like you’d read 04.06.24 as “the fourth of July, 2024”. Well, you wouldn’t, you’d read that “the sixth of April”, but only because you’re using the stupid system for dates.
“as in two halves or 3 quarters”
Why didn’t you write “three”? Were you omitting more letters because you knew I would be able to read “3” as “three”? Yes. Good. We do that for other numerals as well, and depending on the context, you add things like “of” in between them. Where’d you get the word “quarter” when I just wrote down “4”?
Thus it’s fourth of July, not “four July”.
Guess ya’ll just have to adapt to a better system.
Give up on imperial while you’re at it too, you’ll be happier in the long run.
