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Amazon should've made Prime Day fall on a date corresponding to an actual three-digit prime number. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Amazon is running a Prime Day sale on July 16 and 17. Setting aside the fact that this is two separate days, neither 716 nor 717 are prime numbers. They should've done 7/19 instead.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (22 children)

dd/mm/yyyy

1607 is prime

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (19 children)

I maintain that dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy are stupid.

Big -> small is how we read numbers:

yyyy/mm/dd

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I prefer the simple dy/my/dy/my format (with the year reversed for added ease of use). For example, today would be 14/02/70/72.

NIST and ISO have stopped responding to my emails, but I'm optimistic that the Türk Standardları Enstitüsü will eventually adopt it as their preferred standard.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I prefer the MYOWN-16080 standard of yy/dm/md/y/y. Also the year units are randomly swapped for encryption