happy Pi Day!

[ixfd64]

Well, it's 3/14 today! :D

[Mini-Geek]

Happy Pi Day one and all!

[xilman]

Originally Posted by ixfd64

Well, it's 3/14 today! :D

Oh no it isn't!

It's 14/3 today.


Paul

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by xilman

Oh no it isn't!

It's 14/3 today.


Paul

Ah!

Out of curiosity, allow me to ask:

When someone asks you today's date, do you say "March 14", or do you
say "14th of March"??? If the former, then why do you write 14/3????

[Mystwalker]

Actually, it's 14.3.

[m_f_h]

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

Ah!
When someone asks you today's date, do you say "March 14", or do you
say "14th of March"??? If the former, then why do you write 14/3????

google:
Results 1 - 50 of about 126,000 for "14th of March".

In other languages :
"On est le quatorze mars 2007."
"Wir schreiben heute den vierzehnten März 2007."

So writing 14. 3. 2007 is the most logical thing: the fourteenth day of the third month of the year 2007.

Unfortunately, there is no 14th month, so there would never be a pi day (except in the year 4159, for example ; maybe already in 2041 some will write 3.1.41 but that's less recognizable...)

[Andi47]

Happy 3.14159265358979323846264338327950 day!

Edit: Here it is 15 o'clock local time.

[davieddy]

Put these time units in order of size: Month Day Year

[S485122]

Most of the world use one of two representations for dates, the only logical one : "year month day" as used in Hungary, Japan and Sweden amongst others or the reverse "day month year".

The whole world speaks of a quantity by citing the biggest unit first :
- length : 5 km 150 m or to use archaic length units 3 miles, 354 yards 1 foot and 5 inches ;
- time : it is now (in Brussels) 15 hours, 20 minutes 56 seconds or 15:20:56 ;
- numbers : 735 represents 7 hundreds, 3 tens and five units.

Only the USA uses an totally illogical ordering of units for its dates, transposed to the numbering system it would have us write 357 for 7 hundreds, 3 tens and five units !
It is also AFAIK the last country not to use the metric system.

There is something as the ISO (International Standards Organisation), it has the following standard for dates yyyy-mm-dd [hh[:mm[:ss ... ]]].

[Mini-Geek]

Originally Posted by S485122

It is also AFAIK the last country not to use the metric system.

Not quite, Liberia and Myanmar also don't use metric. (map of non-metric countries)

Originally Posted by S485122

Only the USA uses an totally illogical ordering of units for its dates, transposed to the numbering system it would have us write 357 for 7 hundreds, 3 tens and five units !

And 537 is so much better?

[davieddy]

year month day makes sorting by age simple