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Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by cindyllm »

difhif wrote: post #419
mghackerlady wrote: post #293

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I personally have massive problems with Rowling because of her transphobic views, as I am a transexual woman and she completely misunderstands us and has used her influence to make our lives hell in the UK. The rest of her political views aren't something I give much thought as she isn't nearly as influential in those areas >Sidenote: If you're referring to the zombie-ant fungus, those go by Ophiocordyceps nowadays N…

You are a man and, like all men, need to refrain from imposing yourself on women's spaces. If you, and other men like you, stopped doing that, then there would be no problem. This is an issue that is entirely behaviourally self-inflicted. All you need to do is respect women's boundaries.

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Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by btschaegg »

rich_sasha wrote: post #324
ben_w wrote: post #257

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In a moment of whimsy I briefly considered a date format where digits were sorted alphabetically. 2026-07-02-16-31-52 -> -----00011222235667 Hopefully it will remain a nonsense and never be seen in the wild, unlike the phone number field which I found on a real website which responded to scroll events to increase and decrease the value it contained.

How about just sort the numbers from biggest to smallest? 2026-07-02 16:45 becomes 2026-45-16-06-02 Bonus points for using a very confusing separator... Maybe {?

> Bonus points for using a very confusing separator... Maybe {?

I vote for "end of unit" (ASCII 0x1F).

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by btschaegg »

bmacho wrote: post #310
TimK65 wrote: post #176

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So thankful that we use the correct date format (yyyy-mm-dd) in Sweden.

Wrong decimal tho. Why isn't there an en-EU or en-ISO locale that has: - yyyy-mm-dd - SI units - 1,234.56 number format

Because that comma is a crime against legibility.

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by reaperducer »

My_Name wrote: post #203
TimK65 wrote: post #176

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So thankful that we use the correct date format (yyyy-mm-dd) in Sweden.

Can I just say that, as someone born and bred in the UK, YYYY-MM-DD is the only correct way to display a date wherever you live. Anything else is as bad as using mm:hh...

as someone born and bred in the UK, YYYY-MM-DD is the only correct way to display a date

Do you also address your mail to "United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh;" or tell people, "I'm going on holiday to Croatia, Split?"

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by reaperducer »

dhosek wrote: post #387
card_zero wrote: post #288

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Well that's just totally ambiguous. What you should do instead is treat the date as one long number and present its factors, for instance 2⁴⋅11⋅7649⋅15050023, much more practical.

I rarely have cause to give people my phone number anymore, but I always like to give it as three billion, 128 million, …

I always like to give it as three billion, 128 million, …

Reminds me of when I tell Siri, "Play 2-G-B Sydney" and she responds, "Now playing two gigabytes."

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by reaperducer »

penguin_booze wrote: post #355
prima-facie wrote: post #149

If you are from Europe, even if you're not living in the UK, the en-GB locale will feel a lot more familiar to you than the en-US one. It uses the dd-mm-yyyy date format like the rest of Europe, the start of the week is on Monday (vs Sunday in the US), the default paper size is A4 (vs US letter), measurement defaults are metric (indeed UK roads use imperial, but the default is otherwise metric), the time format uses…

> It uses the dd-mm-yyyy date format like the rest of Europe Everywhere sane uses a monotonic order: either increasing or decreasing units. Americans had to be different, somehow - it's a compulsion.

Americans had to be different, somehow - it's a compulsion.

Americans inherited it from the British through colonialism.

Later, the British adopted the French method, as through history they periodically go through periods of Francophilia.

Look in a good British antiques store or archive and you will see letters penned by Queen Victoria using the "American" date method.

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by dgellow »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #402
dgellow wrote: post #317

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Did you actually think I wanted fr-GB to replace en-GB? It was a joke based on the Norman French references from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English

I've seen more absurd ideas :)

That’s fair

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by 1over137 »

kimos wrote: post #325
chrismorgan wrote: post #315

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I started writing something a while ago with preliminary title “Do en and en-US, not en and en-GB”. If you cluster English dialects by various characteristics, you’ll end up with en-US as a clear outlier. I believe that, if you’re going to divide English into two camps, the best is “English (International)” and “English (US)”. Canadian English is the one that’s closest to US English, but even it works at least as wel…

Unfortunately en-CA is not really supported as a locale and we have to choose between en-US and en-GB. I’ll usually choose the latter, because despite more differences in language, there is more alignment between Canada and British English in spelling, units, and style. I really wish en-CA was as well supported as fr-CA honestly.

Who would one lobby to have better en-CA support? OS vendors? browser vendors? ISO? Is there some governing body of such things?

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by crm9125 »

My_Name wrote: post #203
TimK65 wrote: post #176

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So thankful that we use the correct date format (yyyy-mm-dd) in Sweden.

Can I just say that, as someone born and bred in the UK, YYYY-MM-DD is the only correct way to display a date wherever you live. Anything else is as bad as using mm:hh...

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Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by crm9125 »

ben_w wrote: post #257
dhosek wrote: post #245

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It is now.

In a moment of whimsy I briefly considered a date format where digits were sorted alphabetically. 2026-07-02-16-31-52 -> -----00011222235667 Hopefully it will remain a nonsense and never be seen in the wild, unlike the phone number field which I found on a real website which responded to scroll events to increase and decrease the value it contained.

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