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Pi Day is a fake holiday made up by Big Math to sell more math.

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penguin42

@th Using laser cutters on pies ....

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Julio Jimenez

@th another consumer holiday.

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MoiraEve

@th @julioj We hope!

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Strum

@th D
Do Americans realise that most of the world identifies today as 14/3/23? (small units/medium units/big units) Apart from anything else, this allows sensible ordering by date.

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Andy McGuire 🐕

@strum @th It's actually quite weird - America being as religious as it is, that they changed the format of the date.

Obviously it's the 14th day of March in the year of our lord 2023.

This weird thing Americans do - can't be made to fit this original way of defining the day of the year.

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@strum @th
I switched to using YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601) a few months before 1999-12-31
iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time

It's also great for filenames.

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Stephen Mather

@dec23k @strum @th the only correct answer.

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@smathermather @strum @th
ISO 8601
iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈

@smathermather @dec23k @strum @th
IIRC My earliest use of YYYY-MM-DD was in 1997 or 1998.

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Andrew

@dec23k @strum @th 2023-03-14 is logical, useful, AND it still works for pi day!

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Big Caddy :verified:

@ndrw @dec23k @strum @th maybe it's useful for math, not for the language, because we normally say 'March, 14', not '14 March'.

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Andrew

@BigCaddy @dec23k @strum @th that's exactly what I wrote though? And it's useful for computers mostly. Though parts of the world really do say "14 March" when speaking.

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@ndrw @BigCaddy @strum @th
There are some computer systems (including one of the most widely used control panels in Web hosting management) where monthly archives are named using the short month name, and the file manager defaults to sorting by name, so most users see this mess for every year:

Apr
Aug
Dec
Feb
Jan
Jul
Jun
Mar
May
Nov
Oct
Sep

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Andrew

@dec23k @BigCaddy @strum @th ahhhh that's even worse than MDY! 😱

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@BigCaddy @ndrw @strum @th
In conversation or casual email, I'll keep it short and refer to just "the 14th", if March is implied or understood. Depends on the context.

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Strum

@BigCaddy @ndrw @dec23k @th
I beg to differ. I (& most of the English-speaking world) would say "14th of March.

Indeed, most of the time, "it's the fourteenth" is all the information needed. The month is usually a given

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Strum

@ndrw @dec23k @th
That works fine in a spreadsheet column... but...
If someone asks you for the date, do you give them the year, first? The day is the most interesting bit of information.
Most of the time "it's the fourteenth" is enough.

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@strum @th

dice.camp/@jameswallis/1100227

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The Jack of Sandwich

@strum @th most of the world is deprived of pi day. So sad

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Weyoun Dax

@th More importantly, it's not a real date if you format dates properly

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lp0 on fire

You want 22/7, not 14/3.

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IridisSparks

@th

Delicious flavors. That's how they getcha'! 😤

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Gwenfar :plantmage6:

@th I once grew pumpkin pi, a pumpkin that weighed 3.14kg :)

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@th for certain definitions of "big"

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Allikuja

@th yes but also pie.

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Peter Cohen

@th don't do math, not even once. you end up smoking math and your teeth fall out. It's awful.

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Larry Smith

@flargh @th
I don't mind math. Except for all those equations.

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MarcusCSC

@th that only work for the mm dd system other wise it is 14 03

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ChrisMak

@th ... and the problem with this #piday is that it goes on and on and on, ad infinitum. It's totally irrational.

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Larry Smith

@chrismak @th

PI worshiper:

cafepress.com/keendesigns.5663

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ChrisMak

@stargazersmith @th disappointingly it's on sale for 29.99. Not charging 31.41 or 31.42 (rounded up) for it is a lost opportunity. :O

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Pseudo Nym

@th
This holiday is completely irrational.

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I am Jack's Lost 404

@th

Nono that's "economics"

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Derek Murawsky

@th I'm here for it.

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IMissJohn

@th Source? I heard that it was actually big pastry that started Pi Day as a way to write off any production and advertising expenses as educational donations… although I can’t find the article again.

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@AshleySchoefeld @th
It might have been mentioned in this Onion article about the Metric System:
theonion.com/metric-system-thr

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βɛth

@th I approve of any fake holiday whose goal is to sell pies.

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#MajorCannabisGrouch

@th
That's my kind of math, which is where I get destroy the whole dam problem!

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Aswath Rao

@th
But it is only an approximation. I will hold off for the real thing (that will never come)

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phooky

@th I like to celebrate c day (august 31 in Europe)

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Steve Torrente

@th Watch out - if you go up against Big Math, you might wind up factoring polynomials in a basement somewhere.

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MMCLXXII

@th yes, approximately about 3.14159... times more math

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Pusher Of Pixels

@th OMG math is multiplying!

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JD🌊

@th it's my husband Pi's excuse to get presents on a day that's *not* his actual birthday.

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KrazyKat

@th The Horror …

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Yemaya :sparkles_cyan: :sparkles_blue: :sparkles_indigo:
@th @th

Alls i wants to do is eat that pie 🥧 i mean π
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ProIsh

@th Math, not even once

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Mrs Raven

@th

I will buy maths, all ya got.

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Kevin RR :verified:

@th
#PiDay I hear ya, but…
clinicalposters.com/products/p

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Rob Carlson

@th I'm buying!

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Eva Chanda

@th Because it makes it easier to digest!🥧

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nanowiz

@th
deelicious

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ahimsa

@th And isn't math a known gateway to physics? 🤔

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Graham Lester

@th Pi Day is stolen from a pagan holiday!

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Lee

@th

I'll SQUARE that!

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Kevin Russell

@th

So that pi should be squared, bigger right?

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Shailesh Kumar 🇫🇯🇺🇸

@th that’s a very bigly “Trump kind of words”🤭

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Space Rogue

@th I thought it was Big Pie, or maybe they are working together!

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pedro

@th by Americans, because today it's obviously 14.3.

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