Bret Busby composed on 2024-06-24 23:42 (UTC+0800):
The USA is a few hundred years behind the rest of the
world, and, cannot comprehend ISO standards -
the ISO standard for date, is
2024-06-24
YYYY-MM-DD
which is the most efficient way of expressing a date, using the
components of year and month and day of the month
But, for a country that has yet to implement its constitution, it is not really so surprising.
We aren't always forced. Some devices offer only AM/PM time format and schizoid date format, but not my hand or PCs, and neither our military. Cars and outboard
boat engines made outside the USA come to us with metric fasteners. We have 75mm,
100mm, 200mm and/or 400mm spacing on the backs of most display screens too! :) DPI
for screen densities I think we may be stuck with quite a while longer. :p
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