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Yeah count me in, 14.3 doesn’t make any sense for a πday

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But I don’t wanna bake in late July

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Well, you could do the 31st of April, but it seems the universe disagrees with your date format.

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well yeah, there’s no 14th month

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Tell me you are from the US North America without telling me

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They 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.

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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

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How about March Fourteenth as “American PI-Day” and 22.07. as “international, sensible and widely understood PI-Day”, each according to the used date format?

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A third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.

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22/07 is already known as “Pi Approximation Day”

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“widely understood” maybe in certain circles hehe

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Imagine acting superior about a date format.

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No need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior

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DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that’s a superior format.

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Fun fact: 355/113 = 3.14159…
Close enough to pi so that using it for calculating the earth’s circumference from its diameter is accurate to within 3 meters.

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… or to within π meters?

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I chuckled

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The engineer in me wants to tell you round it up to 3.5 just to be safe. Maybe even 4 might be better…

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Better multiply it with a safety factor of 2.

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I like the way you think.

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Why have one pi day when you could have 2?

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You’re forgetting tau day, June 28th. That’s 2*pi. Then we get 3 holidays.

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looks at today’s date

…darn, I did forget Tau Day. :(

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Let’s get some pies and celebrate

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for the greater good

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3 is even better!

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2*pi already sounds like two holidays rolled into one!

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and four pies

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We should have approximately 3 pi days

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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

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More like π days per day

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One for sweet pies, one for savoury.

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FUCK DD/MM FORMAT YYYY-MM-DD IS SUPERIOR

--ISO-8601 GANG

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MM-DD-YY will make you cry

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“In the year 3141…”

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