Proposal: USians stop using “PST” and “EST” and start saying “UTC-8” and “UTC-5” so I can work out what actual damn time you mean in my head.
Alternately, list local and UTC?
Also it’d be great if you didn’t use “summer” and “winter” as an approximate date. Sincerely, the other hemisphere.
like given *we* don’t use (mathematically-correct) YYYYMMDD I’m willing to cut you some slack on MMDDYYYY but this is where I draw the line.
@ticky Been in US for almost 3 decades now, still not happy with MMDDYYYY. In fact traditionally in astrophysics we do use YYYYMMDD although younger generation seems to do this less alas.
@planet4589 yeah I guess DDMMYYYY is winning. It’s practical I guess but given it’s mathematically backwards I wish it weren’t winning…
@planet4589 “former soviet state” : USSR :: ??? : USA
@planet4589 (p.s. IDK the USA has a lot of international English-speaking cultural influence which I suspect won’t just vanish overnight if the union did?)
@ticky Well, yes. DDMMYYYY will survive (or even thrive under the 3rd British Empire) but hopefully the illogical MMDDYYYY will die.
@ticky “former soviet state” : USSR :: "post-Trumpian survivor camps" : USA ?
@planet4589 maybe a little too specific
@ticky Don't worry, its use will go down with the coming collapse of the USA.