Standardization

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Professionals have standards! Community for all proponents, defenders and junkies of the Metric (International) system, the ISO standards (including ISO 8601) and other ways of standardization or regulation!

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Wow! It actually makes sense! (i.imgur.com)

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[–] pancakes 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Same, as a Canadian I wish we just had everything in metric instead of 70% of things. If systems of units were money, metric would be paying with dollars and cents, while imperial is paying with sheep and bars of gold.

[–] ciapatri 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also hate that we are loosey goosey with date formats. What day is 07/08/23??? I hate that the US uses MM/DD/YY format but at least they are consistent about it.

[–] alongwaysgone 3 points 2 years ago

That's either July 8, or August 7th. Depending on... Well. What whoever was writing it meant 😁

[–] Murdoc 5 points 2 years ago

If systems of units were money, metric would be paying with dollars and cents, while imperial is paying with sheep and bars of gold.

😆 I'm totally stealing this.

[–] imaqtpie 2 points 2 years ago

In that case, sign me up for an imperial monetary system, that sounds awesome.

You had me at sheep.