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JohnnyMalaria:

--- Quote from: gnuarm on May 17, 2021, 09:17:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on May 17, 2021, 08:26:07 pm ---To most British-English speakers, "on November 12" looks and sounds odd. Even though I lived in the US nearly three decades, "I'll see you on June two" instead of "I'll see you on June the second" or "I'll see you on the second of June" still sounds very strange. Then, of course, there's the whole "2/6" vs "6/2" debacle...

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That's easy to fix, 2021/06/02, computer time from msd to lsd.  I use computer time in file names so they sort chronologically and alphabetically at the same time.  Or is that on the same time???

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I always write dates as, for example, 17-May-2021 or 17-May-21 on everything*. Previous employers quite rightly had SOPs requiring it. Not as language-neutral as 2021/05/17, though.

*Unless it's a form that dictates the format.

TimFox:
One sensible suggestion from decades ago was to use Roman numerals for month and Arabic numerals for day and year, e.g., “17 V 2017” or “V 17 2017” for the seventeenth day of May.  I don’t think it caught on anywhere, though.

Circlotron:

--- Quote from: newbrain on May 17, 2021, 08:24:23 pm ---And for added fun, "at" goes with time.
So something happened in November, on the 12th, at 9.

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I think of "in" as referring to a time period such as November and "at" referring to an instant of time such as 9AM.

Nusa:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on May 17, 2021, 04:01:28 pm ---I'm perplexed at why any OS would go to the trouble of implementing useless parts of the Unicode standard, like turd emojis, whilst ignoring more useful things such as country flags. :palm:

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Perhaps because flags can, and often do, change over time. So do governments and country names. Never mind the political blow-back of including flags that some refuse to recognize as legitimate.

A turd, however, is universal. Everyone understands it.

magic:

--- Quote from: tooki on May 17, 2021, 05:52:22 pm ---The fact that emoji spread from a Japan-only SMS novelty to something fundamentally supported on all platforms and used on a daily basis would hint at them not being “unnecessary gimmicks”. Being dismissive of it is just gonna get you in trouble, if you’re a developer of any kind. FWIW, Linux was the last major holdout platform; Mac and Windows have had emoji support for a decade at this point, it’s nothing new.
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I use Linux and never experience that deficiency ;D
It is a gimmick, I'm not even sure who or what uses it.

But I would sooner use a poo than some "flag" which isn't even guaranteed to display as a flag. Sorry guys, AFAIK Microsoft is perfectly compliant here by displaying the English abbreviation. That's what Unicode is about these days, shoving English down people's throats and pure white supremacy :P Poo at least is somewhat international and I don't think anyone in the world would have major doubts about the meaning. Poo is unironically a better fit for Unicode's mission.

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