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Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 06:39:01 JST Matt Blaze

Pi Day is a fake holiday that exploits a universally beloved mathematical constant to promote US-style date formats.

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  Docteur Patate (broz42@framapiaf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 06:39:11 JST Docteur Patate
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  @mattblaze The American date format, invented by Yoda it was
  
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  Daniel Taylor (randomdamage@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 20:55:58 JST Daniel Taylor
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  It works with ISO dates also:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
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    ISO 8601
    
    ISO 8601 is an international standard covering the worldwide exchange and communication of date and time-related data. It is maintained by the Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was first published in 1988, with updates in 1991, 2000, 2004, and 2019, and an amendment in 2022. The standard provides a well-defined, unambiguous method of representing calendar dates and times in worldwide communications, especially to avoid misinterpreting numeric dates and times when such data is transferred between countries with different conventions for writing numeric dates and times. ISO 8601 applies to these representations and formats: dates, in the...
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  Harris👍Trump👎 (ve2uwy@mastodon.radio)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 20:56:07 JST Harris👍Trump👎
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  @mattblaze 2023-03-14 is a perfectly logical ISO std (even for ISO).
  
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  Canageek (canageek@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 20:56:09 JST Canageek
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  @mattblaze it works in international style: 2023-03-14
  
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  Pratskinan Matias (uusvanhanen@eliitin-some.fi)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 20:56:16 JST Pratskinan Matias
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  Don't forget about us nerds who use the YYYY-MM-DD date format ?
  
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  Sue Cohen (sueinrockville@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 20:56:18 JST Sue Cohen
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  So? Eat some, you’ll feel better
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  Darren Meyer (darrenpmeyer@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 20:56:25 JST Darren Meyer
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  @mattblaze "universally beloved"? Apparently you've never encountered the Tau People https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
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    No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto
    
    from https://www.facebook.com/mhartl
    
    For millennia, the circle has been considered the most perfect of shapes, and the circle constant π captured the geometry of the circle in a single number. But π is wrong, and it’s time to set things right.
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  ViennaMike (viennamike@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 17:41:58 JST ViennaMike
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