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As someone who grew up in the US, it's still bizarre as a programmer to have a mixed-significance ordering (MM-DD-YYYY) instead of any consistently-endian ordering (DD-MM-YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD). Out of curiosity, in what order do Europeans verbally say full dates with month names? Or does it vary by language?
Denmark: The Nth $month $year. E.g., “Den 20. juni 2022” (lit.: the 20th June 2022).
I'm working on an MIT-licensed time-tracking tool in my spare time and I'm hoping somebody (in a "this is not legal advice"-capacity at least) can enlighten me on licensing here: If I am understanding the AGPL-3.0 correctly (and assuming that the format is also under the license), I could NOT add an "export to Markwhen" feature to my project without then being forced to convert it to AGPL-3.0. Is this correct?
I'd be interested to see what you're working on!
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As someone who grew up in the US, it's still bizarre as a programmer to have a mixed-significance ordering (MM-DD-YYYY) instead of any consistently-endian ordering (DD-MM-YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD). Out of curiosity, in what order do Europeans verbally say full dates with month names? Or does it vary by language?
These replies are fascinating. When saying a date I always say month day year. I hadn’t considered that this might be cultural.
The numeric month and day of my birthday happen to be the same. For this anecdote lets assume it’s 01/01/1970.
When medical staff ask me for my date of birth, I’ll say “1st Jan 1970”. They’ll reply asking “Sorry, Jan 1st?” And I’ll say “yeah”. This blew my (programmer) mind.
Over the years I’ve rewired my brain to say “Jan 1st 1970” and avoid the extra round trip.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who grew up in the US, it's still bizarre as a programmer to have a mixed-significance ordering (MM-DD-YYYY) instead of any consistently-endian ordering (DD-MM-YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD). Out of curiosity, in what order do Europeans verbally say full dates with month names? Or does it vary by language?
In Sweden we say 20th June, 2022 and we even use a "DD/MM -YY" shorthand when signing documents for instance, although YYYY-MM-DD is also common and "the more correct".
Good job! Would like to see it as an independent file format and tools like external editor support and cli compiler (to html/pdf/svg etc.)
Good job! Would like to see it as an independent file format and tools like external editor support and cli compiler (to html/pdf/svg etc.)
Seconding this. I'd love to use this tool, but ideally I want to be editing in the text editor/IDE of my choice and then to be able to own the viewer offline. This would be especially important for actual project management as employers/clients don't tend to allow you to use online tools and that's what I'd most likely be using this for.
Ideally this would be an emacs package.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who grew up in the US, it's still bizarre as a programmer to have a mixed-significance ordering (MM-DD-YYYY) instead of any consistently-endian ordering (DD-MM-YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD). Out of curiosity, in what order do Europeans verbally say full dates with month names? Or does it vary by language?
European here. When I state my date of birth I state it as “7th of October 1990”. When a date is within the current year I state it as for example “27th of June”. If weekday matters, and specific date is still relevant I’ll say for example “Monday 27th of June”. I might also simply say “Sunday last week”, “Monday next week”, “Monday at the end of next month”, etc. Likewise I might say “a couple of weeks ago”, “last w…
And ofc, the mixed order is the inferior option.
I’ve been working on markwhen as a way to easily create timelines just from text. I’ve used it personally to help plan and coordinate my own wedding ( https://markwhen.com/rob/wedding ) and for keeping track of life events, and I’ve seen it used for event planning, project management, and to visualize historical events or periods of time. I personally like tools that let you immediately start using them, and I set ou…