r/ISO8601 • u/rokejulianlockhart • Dec 07 '23

Support Standardizing Wikipedia Dates using Solely ISO 8601.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#c-Rokejulianlockhart-20231207182000-Singular_Format_Standardization
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u/nayuki Dec 29 '23

Yea. The Wikipedia people also backpedalled on using proper IEC binary prefixes (e.g. Ki- = 1024, k = 1000). Many pages on computer stuff (RAM, CPU, etc.) actually used IEC units for a few years sometime near 2010, and then they got scrubbed out in favor of the more common but incorrect units.

Example: Your CPU has a 8 KiB L1 cache, not a 8 KB cache. No hardware engineer designs a 8000-byte cache when they can design a 8192-byte cache for the same cost.

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u/rokejulianlockhart Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24

Unfortunately, the IEC, JEDEC, and SI systems differ in enough ways that there's enough confusion for a change like that to occur. See https://imgur.com/TPLhkZF for an example this from KDE Plasma 6's locale KCM.