Re: OT: Happy Pi Day!

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: OT: Happy Pi Day!
Date	2017-03-17 03:53 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnocmnk2.1ogp.g.kreme@snow.local> (permalink)
References	(5 earlier) <here-438020.06462615032017@news.individual.net> <150320170900203422%timstreater@greenbee.net> <here-1F8330.10225215032017@news.individual.net> <slrnociiim.19ug.g.kreme@snow.local> <here-097CFF.15194415032017@news.individual.net>

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In message <here-097CFF.15194415032017@news.individual.net> android <here@there.was> wrote:
> In article <slrnociiim.19ug.g.kreme@snow.local>,
>  Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>> In message <here-1F8330.10225215032017@news.individual.net> android 
>> <here@there.was> wrote:
>> > In article <150320170900203422%timstreater@greenbee.net>,
>> >  Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>> 
>> >> In article <here-438020.06462615032017@news.individual.net>, android
>> >> <here@there.was> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> >In article <140320172204489990%timstreater@greenbee.net>,
>> >> > Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> In article <oa9ll7$v74$1@dont-email.me>, Patty Winter
>> >> >> <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> >In article <140320171424409720%nospam@nospam.invalid>,
>> >> >> >nospam  <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> >> >> >>In article <58c8349a$0$39521$b1db1813$7968482@news.astraweb.com>, JF
>> >> >> >>Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>> > It's international pi day today. Pi is a constant and is 
>> >> >> >>> > 3.14xxxxxx. 
>> >> >> >>> 
>> >> >> >>> As there is no 14th month in the calender, it can't be 
>> >> >> >>> international 
>> >> >> >>> pi 
>> >> >> >>> day.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>your loss.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >Yep, if he wants to be snide about date-numbering systems, he can
>> >> >> >go without pie today. Serves him right.
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> It might be pi day in the US, but not anywhere else.
>> >> >
>> >> >Not according to the ISO:
>> >> >
>> >> >"ISO 8601 tackles this uncertainty by setting out an internationally 
>> >> >agreed way to represent dates:
>> >> 
>> >> ISO can do what it likes. Real people, however, have other ideas. Which
>> >> is why I made my comment.
>> 
>> > You made a statement amounting to that the format of day following month  
>> > was US only. It's not,
>> 
>> It is.
>> 
>> > just take a look under the formats tab in the "Language and Text"
>> > presets in "System Preferences"! ;-ppp
>> 
>> The iso date is not "month first" it is YEAR first, and the year is
>> required. So 12-31 is not an ISO date, it is an American date which only
>> Americans use.

> I did not mention the year as it's irrelevant for an annual celebration.

It doesn't matter, the ISO date requires the year. Without the year, it
is not an ISO date.

>> Even in places that supposedly use the iso date, if someone writes the
>> day and month, they will write 31-12.
>> 
>> I avoid it all by always writing dd-mmm-yy (15-Mar-17) and the only time
>> I write the date in the American style is when presented with a series
>> of boxes labeled mm-dd-yyyy.

> You're a qualified bore!

And you're a nincompoop!


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OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-14 17:19 +0100
  Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-14 12:22 -0400
  Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-03-14 16:29 +0000
    Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Neil <neil@myplaceofwork.com> - 2017-03-14 13:27 -0400
      Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-14 19:00 +0100
      Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-03-15 11:31 +0000
  Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-03-14 14:21 -0400
    Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-14 14:24 -0400
      Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-03-14 21:00 +0000
        Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-03-14 22:04 +0000
          Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-15 06:46 +0100
            Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-03-15 09:00 +0000
              Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-15 10:22 +0100
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-15 14:03 +0000
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-15 15:19 +0100
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-17 03:53 +0000
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-17 05:07 +0100
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-03-15 16:03 +0000
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-03-15 16:18 +0000
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-15 17:31 +0100
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-15 12:38 -0400
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-15 17:59 +0100
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-03-15 17:19 +0000
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-15 18:57 +0100
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-03-15 19:38 +0000
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-16 05:13 +0100
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-17 03:56 +0000
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-17 05:05 +0100
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-18 13:58 +0000
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-18 19:38 +0100
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-19 16:51 +0000
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-19 18:32 +0100
                Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2017-03-15 14:29 -0500
    Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-14 20:06 +0100
  Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2017-03-15 14:29 -0500

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