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[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (15 children)

I'd start with a 13 month/28 day calendar and planetary time (all clocks set to UTC).

EDIT: And set the date format to YYYY.MM.DD for the entire world. Americans and Europeans can stop arguing. The Japanese got it right.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (5 children)

And set the date format to YYYY.MM.DD for the entire world. Americans and Europeans can stop arguing.

this made me uncontrollably angry , its YYYY-MM-DD not YYYY.MM.DD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'll do you one better: YYYY/MM/DD

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

YYYY-𝓜𝓜-DD

I like my months fancy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As long as you don't switch them around with the days, it'll be fine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

proceeds to write least significant digit to the left when using YYYY·MM·DD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah only garbage people use anything else.

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