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Japan is on its own wavelength. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Japan I can get behind but MM/dd/yyyy is just evil, why would you sandwich days between months and years? You monster

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm an ISO 8601 guy but the MM/DD does make sense in American. We'll say Oct 20th for a date and then straight translate that to numbers 10/20. It makes more sense than counting in French. Ex. 60, 70, 80, 90

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Counting in French is an incredibly low benchmark. Nice try!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Prepare your butthole for the Danish spoken number system, where they express integers in fractions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

They should just introduce a new system. Noone likes five halves of twenty for fifty. I guarantee it.

Just indroduce English numbers, the end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It makes more sense than Monty Python.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The only reason I could see is if you were speaking it. September 18th 2012 for example might sound a bit better than 18 September 2012.