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Machina said:

I can't believe this thread is almost entirely dominated by debating whether 1900 is the 19th or 20th century.

Well when you think about it said debate actually IS relevant to the OP for once lol



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MrWayne said:
SvennoJ said:


The 1900's run from 1900 to including 1999.
19th century goes from 1801 to including 1900.

With this logic, the 1st century goes from 0001 to 0100 and here is the problem, you are missing the year 0000.
Yes, there is actually a year 0000, according to the original gregorian calendar this would be the year 1 BC but we're not using the original gregorian calendar anymore.

 

source:      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Dates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar

Who is we? The very first sentence in your link is
The standard uses the Gregorian calendar, which serves as an international standard for civil use.

Actually the Gregorian calendar is more consistent as the first century BC and AD both count 100 years. That doesn't work if you add a year 0,



John2290 said:
Fuck the 19th century, glad the world is rid of it.

Yeah, fuck the century where the world decided that slavery was a bad thing. Because the 20th century was so much better with two World Wars which led to the combined deaths of more than 80 million people and the rise of Communism that led to the deaths of more than 100 million people.



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Ka-pi96 said:
Zkuq said:

Didn't we just have this thread a few months ago? Did we suddenly get a new person from a 19th century, or was the last thread about the last person from the 1800s? I'm fairly sure it was about the 19th century though.

As far as I know, the Gregorian calendar is the calendar used for many practical purposes, and ISO 8601 isn't used very much in everyday use. As a simple example, dates are not written using ISO 8601 in English. We write, for example, Apr 22, 2018, or 4/22/2018 (which, if you ask me, is a really bad format, but it's still used), and not 2018-04-22.

American, you mean. Here in England we write 22 Apr 2018 or 22/4/2018 like most of the world

I was actually thinking about that! I wasn't sure though, so I went with what I wrote. If you ask me, Apr 22 is fine though, since it's not ambiguous which is the month and which is the day and it reads well too.



Machina said:

I can't believe this thread is almost entirely dominated by debating whether 1900 is the 19th or 20th century.

1900 = 19th century.

And yes, I did make a thread about this a while back about the last person from the 1800s, in which I said there were two people alive from the 19th century. Of course that also turned into a pissing match too...



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Zkuq said:

Didn't we just have this thread a few months ago? Did we suddenly get a new person from a 19th century, or was the last thread about the last person from the 1800s? I'm fairly sure it was about the 19th century though.

MrWayne said:

With this logic, the 1st century goes from 0001 to 0100 and here is the problem, you are missing the year 0000.
Yes, there is actually a year 0000, according to the original gregorian calendar this would be the year 1 BC but we're not using the original gregorian calendar anymore.

 

source:      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Dates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar

As far as I know, the Gregorian calendar is the calendar used for many practical purposes, and ISO 8601 isn't used very much in everyday use. As a simple example, dates are not written using ISO 8601 in English. We write, for example, Apr 22, 2018, or 4/22/2018 (which, if you ask me, is a really bad format, but it's still used), and not 2018-04-22.

Well, UK and US also still cling to the imperial system, besides it making no goddamn sense, so insisting on using an outdated form of calendar isn't that big of a surprise. :P



John2290 said:
Zkuq said:

I was actually thinking about that! I wasn't sure though, so I went with what I wrote. If you ask me, Apr 22 is fine though, since it's not ambiguous which is the month and which is the day and it reads well too.

It's fine when just doing day/month however it's batshit when doing MM/DD/YY. Makes little sense not to do DD/MM/YY. 

MM/DD is bad anyway, if only because it's consistent with MM/DD/YY which itself is bad. DD/MM/YY is logical, and the consistent choice with it is DD/MM.

SuperNova said:
Zkuq said:

Didn't we just have this thread a few months ago? Did we suddenly get a new person from a 19th century, or was the last thread about the last person from the 1800s? I'm fairly sure it was about the 19th century though.

As far as I know, the Gregorian calendar is the calendar used for many practical purposes, and ISO 8601 isn't used very much in everyday use. As a simple example, dates are not written using ISO 8601 in English. We write, for example, Apr 22, 2018, or 4/22/2018 (which, if you ask me, is a really bad format, but it's still used), and not 2018-04-22.

Well, UK and US also still cling to the imperial system, besides it making no goddamn sense, so insisting on using an outdated form of calendar isn't that big of a surprise. :P

OK, let's rephrase that: I don't think there are that many languages/cultures in the world where ISO 8601 is used in everyday use very commonly. English certainly isn't one of them. I'm also not sure ISO 8601 is ever going to get used much in everyday use, because I'm guessing it doesn't read too well.



 

SuperNova said:

Well, UK and US also still cling to the imperial system, besides it making no goddamn sense, so insisting on using an outdated form of calendar isn't that big of a surprise. :P

There are like 2 things 'we cling' to in terms of the imperial system in the UK, Miles (MPH) for vehicles and what units milk comes in (and beer). 

Not sure why anyone uses the mm/dd/yyyy calendar system, that's just stupid.

 

On subject, it's sad that we are losing those that remember. The time when we lose the last person to remember WWI will be a sad time.



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Jon-Erich said:
John2290 said:
Fuck the 19th century, glad the world is rid of it.

Yeah, fuck the century where the world decided that slavery was a bad thing. Because the 20th century was so much better with two World Wars which led to the combined deaths of more than 80 million people and the rise of Communism that led to the deaths of more than 100 million people.

The 20th century gave us video games. It's the best by default. 



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The Fury said:

 

SuperNova said:

Well, UK and US also still cling to the imperial system, besides it making no goddamn sense, so insisting on using an outdated form of calendar isn't that big of a surprise. :P

There are like 2 things 'we cling' to in terms of the imperial system in the UK, Miles (MPH) for vehicles and what units milk comes in (and beer). 

Not sure why anyone uses the mm/dd/yyyy calendar system, that's just stupid.

 

On subject, it's sad that we are losing those that remember. The time when we lose the last person to remember WWI will be a sad time.

Eh, we still have call of duty to remind us of WW1

Why not get rid of months altogether. They don't line up with the lunar cycle anyway, nor weeks, nor anything really. Pointless measurement. Align the weeks with the year, have 1 extra sunday at the end of the year, 2 for leap years, 3 sundays! It would things a lot more easy!

Of course this week notion is pretty outdated as well and just based on some religious nonsense :)