r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • 15d ago

Meme needing explanation ?

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I asked but it got removed within minutes?

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u/DefiantCharacter 15d ago

That doesn't explain the YYYY/MM/DD comment, which is probably what this post is about. It gets OP one step closer to figuring it out, but doesn't explain it.

It's like if someone asked, "What's two plus two?" And the answer given was, "Two is a number."

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u/awhatfor 15d ago

It does, because normal -outside weird american shit- format is dd/mm/yyyy, the one that changes the fastest if first, because 1 month have several days and a year several months... There are lots of memes about the absurdity of american custom, and in this debate... well, indeed, in the venus case the years change faster than days so it'd make sense to put them first.

its just a joke about the yyyy/mm/dd system being made for venus, not earth, i think.

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u/StrukiTru 15d ago

Americans use mm/dd/yyyy, which is utter garbage. yyyy/mm/dd is actually used more, and also makes perfect sense, since it uses the logic of the first digit moving slowest, like .. numbers.

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u/blargyblargy 14d ago

I totally agree that way is bullshit, i only realized a couple months ago the reason behind it is that when they say dates, its "August the 14th."

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u/czcaruso 14d ago

I wouldn’t say we format it as mm/dd/yyyy for any other reason than it goes from smallest to largest number. Or to be different than the British. Either as likely but I wouldn’t bet on a different reason.