Recent content by ten-tackle

So, I had a few questions and commented on the rules chapter. The questions were answered and I'd like to move on. However now I receive a notification everytime somebody else has a question, and because I'm a smartass and crave attention I can't help responding, even thoug I am intellectually...

Get out of here with your place value system! If you're gonna use numbers, use letters: XVII II MMXXI

Definetly true. I like it, when it is already sorted, because I read left to right and so when looking for something with a known date, like in a folder, I find it easier to find the right day. That said, if I switched over to American I doubt the difference would be more than a few seconds...

TIL, there are places that genuinly use YYYY MM DD outside of IT or maybe some forms. It seems so counterintuitive to me. Like if somebody asked me for the date, I'd first respond with just the day (maybe day of the week)(and I'd be confused if someone then asked for clarification). I am...

My mistake. Yes the format used in computer science is indeed year, month, day, though outside the USA people usually display dates as DD.MM.YYYY and I would be fine with either. I assume the admins are Americans and have no plans of changing it? I guess Americans are used to working around...

The Date format should be changed to international standard. Simple reason: say you want to search something by date, but you only know year and month. Right now you'd have to brute force up to 31 times, when in the normal format you could just type "[month][year]" in the search bar and the...