Pi day is an irrational holiday that was invented by Big US Date Format.

[derrydavis@techhub.social]

@mattblaze that's all fine and well but the important question is, what pie are you having?
#ShepardsPie here

[jamesmarshall@sfba.social]

@mattblaze I find it transcendental.

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@human3500 @mattblaze On Tau day we get two.

[transportist@mastodon.social]

@mattblaze Are you saying we should celebrate Duodecember the Third instead?

[stuartb@social.teamb.space]

@mattblaze The rest of the world shoud start celebrating Pi Day on July 22nd.

[peterbrown@mastodon.scot]

@dalias @mattblaze year month day probably works better for mechanised filing systems.
But for a human being day month year is intuitive.

[peterbrown@mastodon.scot]

@mattblaze arithmetical imperialism

[dveditz@infosec.exchange]

@mattblaze
Europeans can keep waiting for April 31 to happen

[llewelly@sauropods.win]

@mattblaze
format will clean your hard drive, but if that's your Big Date you'll be left feeling empty.

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@mattblaze unfortunately there's no third of Duodecember (3/14)

[cobbpg@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@peterbrown @dalias @mattblaze It entirely depends on your native language/culture. For instance, in Hungary we do use year-month-day, and therefore I always found it more logical than any alternative.

[dveditz@infosec.exchange]

@peterbrown @dalias @mattblaze

These days we tend to say "March fourteenth" and our US written dates reflect that (3/14). In Olde Tymes we said "fourth of July" and the UK written form (4/7) reflects that. I'm not sure which changed first, though I suspect speech.

[mls14@social.vivaldi.net]

@mattblaze Pi day has been ratio’d to death…

[oclsc@mstdn.ca]

@peterbrown @dalias @mattblaze Not for this human being.

Do you also argue that armpit-and-brine-defined Fahrenheit is more intuitive than Celsius? I used the first for 30 years, now live with the second, and it's fine.

People often think something is intuitive and better just because it's what they're used to.

[oclsc@mstdn.ca]

@dveditz @peterbrown @dalias @mattblaze Judging by what I hear on British television programs, `the fourteenth of March' is common parlance in the UK, so perhaps the UK form makes sense.

But it's really just what you're used to. A few years ago I nudged myself into using ISO 8601 yyyy-mm-dd (with nonstandard mm-dd without year in my own notes where the year is clear from context). It now feels natural to me, much more so than any of the xx/yy forms.

[xenotrope@bsd.network]

@mattblaze There is no 31/4.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@mxchara @mattblaze there's a 22nd of July though (22/7)

https://wok.oblomov.eu/mathesis/pi-day/