Why not just keep counting up forever and use it like Japanese epoch time?
Starting from when, Emperor Jimmu?
They’ve already started with the current emperor. Basically don’t change anything is what I’m wondering about — just keep counting up.
'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication
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Re: 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication
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So the co-authors have an Akihito Number of 1. Does anybody on the thread have an Akihito Number of 3 or less?
I (3) believe one of my friends (2) served one of the princesses (1) tea at a ceremony once when they visited Hawaii.
All of those need to publish papers with each other to qualify, probably. Maybe we can find another measure?
Re: 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication
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Well there is a tendency to still use Fahrenheit during summer like "it's in the 80s", and "it's in the 90s" this month, but most use Celcius for winters when it gets below freezing. There must be a grey area in the 50s and 60s F. Both approaches often seen in headlines. :)
I'm a physicist and I still feel compelled to die on the following hill, re: Fahrenheit---it just maps better to human perception: 30s: Wear a heavy coat 40s: Wear a light coat 50s: Wear a jacket 60s: Wear a hoodie 70s: Wear a t-shirt 80s: Wear shorts
c is just easy because 0 is the freezing point.
Re: 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication
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I've just been on a 3 week trip to Japan and didn't see traditional Japanese dates used anywhere except on museum exhibits. Train tickets, bus tickets, hotel check-in / out dates, credit card receipts, tickets for various attractions etc. all displayed the date in ISO-8601 format. It's interesting to ponder, but the traditional date format seems to have fallen out of use (probably with the advent of the computer era)…
Probably not with the tourist , though all my JR ticket I have are listed with traditional date though -- maybe they issued it with A.D because of you are tourist. Other tickets seems to be mixed though. For example, of documents I have laying around my desk right now: Alien card: A.D / Student card: A.D. / My number card (like US SSN): Traditional / Insurance card: Traditional / Water bill: Traditional / Electricity…
Alien card? Do you mean the zairyu card?
Re: 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication
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I don't think that's the problem; I think that's the one thing that's not a problem. Monotonic time is not that hard. The hardest thing about it is just convincing programmers to use it, and making sure your libraries use it properly. I don't want to say it's trivial, but it's not that hard once both you and your code base internalize "convert everything to internal UTC representation as quickly as possible, convert…
>"convert everything to internal UTC representation as quickly as possible, convert to local time as late as possible on the way out". That's not a good approach to use for future events.
I should have qualified that with an exclusion for recurring and future events. Identifying present and past times, which is the majority case, is not that difficult. Future times is one of those cases where the availability heuristic fools you; you can readily think of cases where it is a concern, but it is the clear minority of things that have to deal with time.
Re: 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication
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don't some parts of Europe also use decilitres for beverage packaging? I've seen bottles that are like "75dl", and it took me a few minutes to clue in.
That would be centiliters, for example, wine is most commonly sold in 75cl bottles. Millilitres is also a common unit for smaller quantities in e.g. cosmetics.
Right! I actually meant centiliters - it's been a few years. But a commenter below mentions deciliters are a thing as well. What a crazy world :)
Re: 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication
#97Why not just keep counting up forever and use it like Japanese epoch time?
Starting from when, Emperor Jimmu?
> Starting from when, Emperor Jimmu?
This system actually existed but it has an association with ww2 so it probably wouldn't go over very well now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_imperial_year
Re: 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Starting from when, Emperor Jimmu?
They’ve already started with the current emperor. Basically don’t change anything is what I’m wondering about — just keep counting up.
Setting aside whatever political and cultural pressures there might be to maintain the status quo, this isn't just a measure of time, it's a measure of units of imperial reigns. What does it even signify if it doesn't roll over when a transition occurs?
Re: 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication
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I'm a physicist and I still feel compelled to die on the following hill, re: Fahrenheit---it just maps better to human perception: 30s: Wear a heavy coat 40s: Wear a light coat 50s: Wear a jacket 60s: Wear a hoodie 70s: Wear a t-shirt 80s: Wear shorts
Works in C too: -ve Don't go outside 0s Wear a coat 10s Wear a jacket 20s Wear a t-shirt 30s Don't go outside
-40s too cold
-30s cold
-20s February
-10s beanie optional
-0s can't store non-alcoholic drinks on the balcony
+0s wear waterproof boots
+10s no need to wear a jacket
+20s don't wear more than a t-shirt
+30s can't sleep since my apt. has no AC
Fixed that for northeners you insensitive clod.