Just saw a rant about date formats between the US and every other country and saw this a few years ago. Seems appropriate

In some asian countries they use the "yyyy.mm.dd"-system, which makes more sense when managing folders

Well, when your system was based on the physical features of men and the distances they travelled in 1000 paces, these are the units you get.

I've always wondered why the metric day never gained traction. Decimal time is so intriguing to me. 10 hour days with 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute. I actually created a watchface to display decimal time. Here's some info on it lol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

@dewguzzler you may be interested in this app I made then: http://github.com/DeveloperACE/...

@ScribeOfGoD http://m.mentalfloss.com/article.ph...

In my country we have DD/MM/YY

@J4s0n all those we pre 2000 some even pre 1500's :p

Just add an " are you American or the rest of the world ?" question and you'll be g fine

@ScribeOfGoD still you could prevent them.
Also it would be better when everyone uses the same system

@J4s0n why not do everything the same then? What's the point of being different?

@DLMousey 1) I have a fiancee. 2) Yes, I am an American, and I also understand both systems. 3) Keep your nose out of my private life.

@DeveloperACE lol except of course I use Android... Lol

@dewguzzler I have needed a java version if you want to make a pull request/issue for one

@DeveloperACE I'm good really, I have an android version but thank you! It's just so intriguing, not sure why lol

@dewguzzler have you open sourced it?

I'd be interested in merging projects if you want to

@DeveloperACE oh this was made by someone else, I had just found it on the Google Play store. I created a Pebble watchface in C-ish and it is open source https://github.com/dewguzzler/...

@dewguzzler oh ok

Remembering 5280 feet to a mile is an extremely trivial task compared to knowing all the conjugation's of your spoken language's version of "to be" yet nobody ever bitches about that.

I'm surprised no-one has yet cited XKCD on this issue. So I do.

Metric system is quite cool.
That's why we call a quarter pounder, a cheese royale.

What do you think about F vs C for temperature?
*grabs popcorn*

@btfoom Personally I don't really understand the benefits of using Fahrenheit but I like the way for Celsius, water boils at 100°C and freezes at 0°C which kinda gives you a good basis for everything in between. Just seems more simple to me

@dewguzzler do you happen to know if the java app is open source?

@DeveloperACE depending on the license, if they say you can use it without paying royalties and have it on github or something is a plus as well.

I'm American and agree with this rant.