April Fools' Day Prank at Work

[Nyanjilla]

While I was living in Japan, where addresses and dates are big-endian, I started writing dates in YY/MM/DD format (but not with the Japanese year numbering).

It makes it easier to sort files on the computer too.

Otherwise I write the month, such as 2 Apr 2015

[EdLee]

addresses and dates are big-endian

I haven't thought about or heard of the terms big- and little- endians for over 10 years. Thanks.

( From how data is stored in computer memory. )

[Nyanjilla]

addresses and dates are big-endian

I haven't thought about or heard of the terms big- and little- endians for over 10 years. Thanks.

( From how data is stored in computer memory. )

The term is much older... I was brought up on the classics, which is why debates on how dates *should* be written seem so familiar, except that there was no "middle-endian" faction originally.

[EdLee]

The wonderful things one can learn from Go venues.

Endianness

[Boidhre]

02/04/2015 usually

I also don't know what happens in the UK, or Europe, or in most other countries, actually.

[rant]
But here, it's very common to see things like 02/03/04
(on receipts, even legal documents, like tax forms) which drive me crazy. Is it:

• 2002 March 4th
• 2002 April 3rd (strange, yes)
• Feb 3rd, 2004
• March 2nd, 2004
• Feb 4th, 2003 (nobody does this)
• Apr 2nd, 2003 (nobody does this)

It's one of my pet peeves, not shared by most others here.
[/rant]

That would always be March 2nd 2004 here, unless given the context you suspected March 2nd 1904.

Actually using the 4 digit format for the year became a lot, lot more common here after 1999. A lot of people felt 1/1/00 looked weird.

[DrStraw]

On 14th March people in the USA celebrated Pi Day: 3/14/15, or for some they celebrated the specific time: 3/14/15 9:26:54. It occurred to me at the time that people in Europe would wonder what it was all about.

[Fedya]

In Europe they celebrate Pi Day on the 31st of April, of course.

Classic April Fools Day joke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU

[Bonobo]

This game, and the kibitzers’ comments