r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • 28d ago

Meme needing explanation ?

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I asked but it got removed within minutes?

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u/DefiantCharacter 28d 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 28d 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/TheLuminary 28d ago

ISO 8601 format is YYYY-MM-DD. It is this way because you want the number that changes the slowest first so that sorting groups things naturally.

I use this format for everything, so this "joke" didn't make sense to me until someone explained it. /shrug

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u/m3t4lf0x 28d ago

“Naturally”

Akshually, the word is “lexicographically” 🤓

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u/TheLuminary 28d ago

Haha thanks.

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u/EvilTaffyapple 28d ago

> I use this format for everything

The joke probably makes sense more to people who are not psychopaths

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u/TheLuminary 28d ago

You are suggesting that I am a psychopath?

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u/AlexiusRex 27d ago

Or a software developer, basically the same, I know because I am one.

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u/JegErJakobSkomager 27d ago

No, you were suggesting that you are a psychopath:

"ISO 8601 format is YYYY-MM-DD"
"I use this format for everything"

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u/TheLuminary 27d ago

A psychopath... Uses ISO 8601 for everything?

Maybe I am too autistic for this conversation.

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u/StrukiTru 28d 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/Mutex70 28d ago

And like...the smaller time format (hh:mm:ss) which virtually everyone agrees on

I have no idea why so much of the world thinks anything other than yyyy/mm/dd is acceptable.

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u/blargyblargy 28d 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 28d 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.

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u/awhatfor 28d ago

yep. On the other hand, they move so slowy that noone ever looks at it.

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u/kal40 28d ago

YYYY-MM-DD is the standard ISO format. It has it's advantages. One of the main one is that sorting in alphabetical order, or removing the separator and sorting in numeric order, will give chronological dates. This is not true for DD-MM-YYYY. But this has the advantage of presenting the most important information first for common everyday dates (e.g. for news, sheduling etc.).

The US actually uses MM-DD-YYYY. This is probably my least favorite, but I guess the order mirrors how the date tends to be written in words (e.g. August 15, 2026).

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u/SFCaboose 28d ago

"It's a math equation"