Collection of Lame Jokes

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[WWGD]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[WWGD]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Ibix]

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Twist: she dumps him because he's incompatible with her ISO-8601 preference.

 

[fresh_42]

Twist: she dumps him because he's incompatible with her ISO-8601 preference.

Even ISO-8601 is stupid. The only reasonable format is YYYYMMDDHHMMSS with $0\leq HH \leq 23.$
No reason for any minuses.

 

[DaveC426913]

Even ISO-8601 is stupid. The only reasonable format is YYYYMMDDHHMMSS with $0\leq HH \leq 23.$
No reason for any minuses.

Indeed. The only unambiguous format.
Also, mostly presaged by Star Trek.

 

[Ibix]

No reason for any minuses.

It makes them more readable to most humans.

 

[berkeman]

Even ISO-8601 is stupid. The only reasonable format is YYYYMMDDHHMMSS with $0\leq HH \leq 23.$
No reason for any minuses.

Needs to also include Daylight Savings Time status. Otherwise, there are ambiguous entries every Fall (when our clocks "Fall Back" an hour).

 

[fresh_42]

Needs to also include Daylight Savings Time status. Otherwise, there are ambiguous entries every Fall (when our clocks "Fall Back" an hour).

GMT.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[DaveC426913]

Needs to also include Daylight Savings Time status.

Need to eliminate Daylight Savings forever. Problem solved.

 

[WWGD]

Need to eliminate Daylight Savings forever. Problem solved.

I've heard of more radical proposals that time zones themselves be eliminated. Not sure how well that would work.

 

[fresh_42]

I've heard of more radical proposals that time zones themselves be eliminated. Not sure how well that would work.

It works in the airline industry.

 

[gmax137]

It works in the airline industry.

And in China

 

[fresh_42]

It makes them more readable to most humans.

Frontend problem.

 

[WWGD]

And in China

Though the majority of its population lives in the East Coast. That may have to see with it.

 

[WWGD]

 

[WWGD]

It works in the airline industry.

Good, so it is employed.

 

[berkeman]

Need to eliminate Daylight Savings forever. Problem solved.

So do we permantly spring forward, or forever fall backward? Inquiring minds want to know.

(BTW, I agree it would be best to not keep changing back and forth, but I don't know which of the two choices is best...)

 

[WWGD]

So do we permantly spring forward, or forever fall backward? Inquiring minds want to know.

(BTW, I agree it would be best to not keep changing back and forth, but I don't know which of the two choices is best...)

Spring Forward first Winter day. Until First Spring day. Problem solved.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I've heard of more radical proposals that time zones themselves be eliminated. Not sure how well that would work.

Philosophers. Pfffft!

or possibly hippies.

 

[WWGD]

Philosophers. Pfffft!

Or, as DuMaurier (Fake Philosopher name) put it in his 1721 treatise: " Don't Need no Stinkin Philosophy).

BTW, Philosophy was originally a treatise on people with first name 'Phil'.

 

[jack action]

I've heard of more radical proposals that time zones themselves be eliminated. Not sure how well that would work.

Then I vote for Epoch time.

 

[WWGD]

Then I vote for Epoch time.

Same as Sidereal time?

 

[jack action]

Same as Sidereal time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

 

[WWGD]

 

[strangerep]

Even ISO-8601 is stupid. The only reasonable format is YYYYMMDDHHMMSS with $0\leq HH \leq 23.$

What about 12,000 years from now? Not very future proof.

Oh, wait... Humanity is almost certain to have destroyed itself long before then.

 

[WWGD]