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Today's date is Dozen/Half Dozen/Two Dozen

12/06/24

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Wrong, the date is 2024-06-12.
- Finally some culture in this thread.
  
  Sprays anti-bacterial liquid
  
  ISO8601 🙌
- 2024, June 12.
  
  Why isn't the long form like this as well? Especially since the year is the most important info anyway when it comes to things like studying history.
  
  Actually, on second thought, computers would organize things by alphabetical order this way which would seem weird.
  
  Because precise dates are used much more commonly contemporaneously than they are for historical purposes. This is so true that the year is commonly omitted, as it is assumed and understood by all parties without mention.
  
  You don't need the comma when you write it this way. The comma in June 12, 2024, is there exactly because it's the wrong order.
  
  It's basically "I wrote the date. Oops, forgot the year!"
  
  Computers order it correctly in that format because that's the correct format. In the same way a computer will order any other correctly formatted numbers in the correct order - and incorrectly formatted numbers in the incorrect order - it shouldn't be surprising that they order correctly formatted dates in the correct order.
  
  I figure it's because the year can be seen as an optional appendage if you're talking about dates from the current year. Like, I can say "that happened on May 5th," or "I'll be there June 18th," and you can reasonably assume I mean in 2024 unless I specify "June 18th, 2063."
  
  Now, as for why you can say "I'm going on the 18th," but Americans don't say 18th of June, 2024, I haven't a clue. We really only seem to have logical explanations for the way we do things about half of the time.
Half dozen, dozen, two dozen in the US.
It finally paid off! Today is the day our system makes sense!
- Patiently waiting for 2024-12-06 to repost this.
  
  Biggest to smallest is the only sane format. yyyy-mm-dd h:m:s
- Two dozen, half dozen, dozen in ISO land.
  
  Nope Two score and two dozen, half dozen, dozen
Thank you for this. I'm going to use it at work.

And in the mm/dd/yy format it's also 2x ascending.
This is what shower thoughts should be! Thank you!
Today's date is 2024-06-12 and no one can tell me otherwise
- ISO 8601 ftw!
  
  It's the only way.
  
  The way almost everyone else does it - Americans, Europeans, etc - is just wrong.
GOD DAMNIT! For the first time, the stupid American date format is more interesting.

6/12/24
- Just wait for it
- December 6th is still coming
Everyone arguing about date formats, yet no one yelling about a dozen being an outdated measurement because it's not base 10.
- Base twelve gang
  
  All you guys do is complain about how much the price of 10 eggs has gone up.
- 12 is a far superior number to 10. It is sacrilege that we started using 10 instead of 12.
  
  People already have problems comprehending orders of magnitude with base 10. At base 12 things would only be worse.
  
  If anything we should go binary to better understand the difference between a billion and a million. 🥸
- 12 is so much more divisible
  
  United we stand, though.
- The future is now old man! Ditch your antiquated base 10 numbering system and embrace the future of hexadecimal!
  
  Base 64 rules!
- I only go by bakers dozen
- A bakers dozen reasons why
  
  Base thirteen gang just wants to see the world burn.
Indeed, it dozen.
Tomorrow it will be baker's dozen, half dozen, two dozen.
And now its half dozen/baker's dozen/two dozen in the US.
- A baker's dozen is 13.
  
  Today is the 13th.
It's so good we will get it twice this year.
Twelve is such a great number. So divisible.
- Several cultures throughout history have used base 12 for their numbering! You can count to 12 on one hand by counting the segments of your fingers (excluding the thumb).

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