• original_ish_name@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I’ve said it once and I will say it again:

      mkdir -p 2023/{January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,Septembet,October,November,December}

      Warning: not POSIX

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    1 year ago

    Alright, then I guess change the way you read a clock too… My day to day use doesn’t include the year at all. Just mm/dd

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      1 year ago

      Why change the way you read a clock? year/month/day hour:minute:second

      You would never read a clock as minute:second:hour, which is analagous to how Americans phrase dates.

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      Americans pick up weird habits and then insist that it’s the right way. How is August 9th any better than 9th of August when the 9th is a subunit of August and not the other way around?

      Another good example is the use of the imperial system. I’ve heard Americans often declare that it’s a better system for manual use compared to the metric system. But the metric system has prefixes that differ consistently by 3 orders of magnitude, whereas the imperial system has rather arbitrary jumps between each successive unit. The metric system needs much less cognitive effort even for manual use.

      I can understand that it’s a matter of habit for Americans. But it’s the lack of acceptance that there is a problem that leads to other problems like crashing a spacecraft onto Mars.