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Ah standards. Taking all the fun out of international travel confusion. Now if we could only get the US onto the metric system and abolish daylight saving time.
Yet another battle won in the 0 indexing vs. 1 indexing war
Ah standards. Taking all the fun out of international travel confusion. Now if we could only get the US onto the metric system and abolish daylight saving time.
And, for that matter, stop counting years and centuries from one. The 19th century was from 1900 to 1999. The 20th started at the year 2000.
[EDIT] I've just been informed LRH didn't completely die. I'll petition for the singularity reset.
Ah standards. Taking all the fun out of international travel confusion. Now if we could only get the US onto the metric system and abolish daylight saving time.
I'll change when we have a metric clock used regularly.
Ah standards. Taking all the fun out of international travel confusion. Now if we could only get the US onto the metric system and abolish daylight saving time.
By which I mean, something like using rods, but with SI-prefixes.
I actually wished a change in reverse direction, the world adopting the Korean standard of age accounting for full existence, not just postpartum existence. The later feels quite arbitrary, at least for me.
Yet another battle won in the 0 indexing vs. 1 indexing war
It just shows you how reality-denying the 1 indexers can be, going as far as calling a newborn 1 even though (if normal term) it was conceived roughly 0.75 years ago.
A newborn has only seen 1 year, 2023. An infant born any time in 2022 has lived across 2 years. This simplifies things when you only need, or only have, someone's year of birth.
Ah standards. Taking all the fun out of international travel confusion. Now if we could only get the US onto the metric system and abolish daylight saving time.
And, for that matter, stop counting years and centuries from one. The 19th century was from 1900 to 1999. The 20th started at the year 2000.
Yet another battle won in the 0 indexing vs. 1 indexing war
even weirder than that, as far as I can tell, as the whole year cohort ages together on the same day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning
Ah standards. Taking all the fun out of international travel confusion. Now if we could only get the US onto the metric system and abolish daylight saving time.
Seriously though, I wonder if immigration is going to help with that?
Almost everyone else in the world uses metric in everyday life. Immigrants to the US have to go through the unpleasant process of adjusting to not doing so. I'm sure many (most?) of them wish they didn't have to do that. As the immigration process continues, might this lead to growing popular support for finally phasing out non-metric units?