Twelve is such a great number. So divisible.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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Several cultures throughout history have used base 12 for their numbering! You can count to 12 on one hand by counting the segments of your fingers (excluding the thumb).
And now its half dozen/baker's dozen/two dozen in the US.
A baker's dozen is 13.
Today is the 13th.
It's scary how this is the way I found out
Days drag, but years fly.
Welcome to adulthood.
Today is Thursday.
Which fits, because you'd be thirsty after a baker's dozen.
GOD DAMNIT! For the first time, the stupid American date format is more interesting.
6/12/24
December 6th is still coming
Just wait for it
It's so good we will get it twice this year.
Today's date is 2024-06-12 and no one can tell me otherwise
ISO 8601 ftw!
It's the only way.
The way almost everyone else does it - Americans, Europeans, etc - is just wrong.
May I introduce East Asia? They also like to do addresses top down
I mentioned etc.
Oh sorry, my point was that East Asia does it YYYY-MM-DD, with the exception of maybe some different delimiter and leading zeros depending on preference, they already coincidentally do it the ISO way!
Tomorrow it will be baker's dozen, half dozen, two dozen.
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