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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
* meters * kg * lean celsius but don't care too much either way * abolish seasonal time changes * for online calls/events specify time in UTC * YYYY-MM-DD date format * ground floor is 0th; don't skip 4 and 13 * don't put sugar in cold tea Simple rules for a civilized society.
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@aghahowa.eth
Anyone who uses MM-DD-YYYY should be arrested fr fr
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
It probably sticks because it matches natural-language usage: "I was born on January 31, 1994" East Asian languages are better at this: in Chinese you would say 我是1994年1月31日出生的 (So the "MM-DD-YY is a better fit for humans" thing is false, East Asia works fine with YYYY-MM-DD even in natural language)
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@vitalik.eth
Incidentally I make a point of answering in year-month-day format when someone asks me for a date *in spoken English* Together we can improve our language, one small step at a time!
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@snoopcat
The same as Eastern Europe. YYYY.MM.DD
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@deanpierce.eth
MM-DD makes the most sense for short timelines where you can assume the year. Starting with the most significant unit down to least significant, like saying it's 11:35. Then, on the occasion a year is needed, it's tacked to the end as an oversight. That's where MM-DD-YYYY comes from. DD-MM-YYYY is an abomination 😁
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In Britain it's more common to say it as "I was born on the 31st of January 1994" but maybe that's because we use DD-MM-YYYY
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It only matches language usage in english I guess. In italian, we say 31 January 1994
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@kasvegas
I used DD MM YYYY (reverse of yours but def not MM at the start!)
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@allocatooor
Spoken spanish is also DD MM YYYY
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@wblut
In Dutch we say "eight and thirty" doesn't mean we're writing 83 when we mean 38 ❤️
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Adam Stox
@stoxophone
We share a birthday! Neat
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@junyi
French people formally or informally use the 24hr way of telling the time, it's definitely not strange and actually more fluid to say "20h" than "8h du soir". in Chinese if you say 20 o'clock will be strange for anyone: 晚上8点，如果说(晚上)20点大家会觉得奇怪。
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@the4th
Need to ask /aussie but I think we’re like the Brits… we’d say born on DD-MM-YY
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@definn.eth
Both are madness. In Portuguese/Spanish, both spoken and written, the most relevant information comes first, so dd/mm/yyyy. Most of the time the year is irrelevant. "A reunião será no próximo dia 15"
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@tch
Interestingly whether they would use 1994 or year 83?
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