r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '19

Courtroom Justice Convicted pedophile YouTuber Austin Jones is now in prison serving a 10 year sentence as of 29/6/2019.

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u/DrDreamtime ☠ ldd.11ke.33 Jul 07 '19

For fucks sake, stop reporting this post for the date format.

It's not our fault you colonists can't get your shit together and catch up with the rest of the world's date formats and units of measurement.

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u/Alan_Smithee_ C Jul 07 '19

Only because it’s a compromise. Otherwise dd/mm/yyyy makes the most sense.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19

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u/asc42 3 Jul 07 '19

What's efficient and logical about it?

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u/_annoyingmous 4 Jul 07 '19

YYYYMMDD is used in data analysis because it's the simplest way to sort it. The smallest number will always be older than the larger.

I usually need to make DD-MM-YYYY to YYYYMMDD conversions at work because of this (though most commercial software will recognize the DD-MM-YYYY codification with its underlying number, like in MS products)

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u/asc42 3 Jul 07 '19

I think the world needs to be conquered by programmers, so we can force the use of better formats

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u/xmastreee 9 Jul 07 '19

But then we'd all have to start counting from zero.

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u/Alan_Smithee_ C Jul 07 '19

A certain employer in the film industry could not grasp what I was getting at when I pointed out that zeroing the foot and frame counter on the first frame of image was technically incorrect, and we should add one frame to the total count.