Pi Day

Yeah count me in, 14.3 doesn't make any sense for a πday

But I don’t wanna bake in late July
Well, you could do the 31st of April, but it seems the universe disagrees with your date format.
~~well yeah, there's no 14th month~~
- Tell me you are from ~~the US~~ North America without telling me

How about March Fourteenth as "American PI-Day" and 22.07. as "international, sensible and widely understood PI-Day", each according to the used date format?

A third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.
22/07 is already known as "Pi Approximation Day"
"widely understood" maybe in certain circles hehe
Imagine acting superior about a date format.
- No need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior

Fun fact: 355/113 = 3.14159...
Close enough to pi so that using it for calculating the earth's circumference from its diameter is accurate to within 3 meters.

... or to within π meters?
- I chuckled
The engineer in me wants to tell you round it up to 3.5 just to be safe. Maybe even 4 might be better...........
- Better multiply it with a safety factor of 2.

Why have one pi day when you could have 2?

We should have approximately 3 pi days
- I propose that during a 113 day period we have exactly 355 pi days. That would be an avrage of 3,14159 pi days per year
You're forgetting tau day, June 28th. That's 2*pi. Then we get 3 holidays.
- looks at today's date
  ...darn, I did forget Tau Day. :(
- for the greater good
- 3 is even better!
- 2*pi already sounds like two holidays rolled into one!
- and four pies
One for sweet pies, one for savoury.

FUCK DD/MM FORMAT YYYY-MM-DD IS SUPERIOR

-ISO-8601 GANG

That's nice and helps remember it's 22/7. Americans can have their 14th of March, and let 22/7 be the international pi day.

Undecimber
Duodecimber
Tredecimber
Quattordecimber
Quindecimber
Sedecimber
Septendecimber
Duodevigintiber
Undevigintiber
Vigintiber

But Pi Day doesn't end with the day. There can be Pi Hour, Pi Minute, Pi Second, Pi Milisec...

This was waaay too low
Do NOT give my one Daughter anymore ideas than she already has!

Is this some worldly date format that I'm too American to understand?

more like a rest-of-the-worldly date format 🙃

A man with an assault rifle at an island killing 77 people, many bellow 18, kinda ruined pi-approximation day in Norway.

TIL that not only is it legal to own guns in Norway, apparently you guys have a fairly high percentage of gun ownership.
- Absolutely, but acquiring a weapon legally is a process involving the police and requires a sensible intent (like hunting, sports or defense against polar bears) and an approved safe storage. While there are a lot of weapons in Norway, it's very heavily regulated.
  With that said, the terror in Norway was performed with a firearm which was obtained legally with approval from the police, so the system is far from perfect.
What an oddly specific trigger. I'm sure 3/14 has a tragic past somewhere too. 🤔
- From the wiki:
  2019 – Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.
  2021 – Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.
- It's recent enough that it still haunts the people of the country. It's also not an every day occurrence like in America.

Where's the love for tau day

I was looking for you. Or someone like you. Or someone other than you.
I need a Tau advocate and you got the job.

I have a Daughter who was born on Pi day. When she was little. she would tell you it's the second most important day, right after Christmas. Pi Day actually became a school wide fun day because of her, (small rural schools can be fun that way). We would bring a couple of pies for her math class to celebrate. Oddly, she much prefers a strawberry cheese cake for her birthday over pies.

I suspect she will NOT allow the change...........

Cheesecake is pie though
- Cheese cake is either a custard or Tart depending on ingredients. But it's not a pie.
Not very odd. It's traditional to use a cake for bday instead of pie.
- But not for Pi Day. Having taught classrooms how to calculate Pi by tossing "frozen hot dgos" and literally timing the period of the swing of an apple pie suspended from the ceiling, it's pies or nothing!

It's close, but the math checks out.

Yeah, that makes me want to celebrate my birthday more

Jokes on you, I'm too dumb to get it!

You'd confuse the Americans.

This... this is why we have no friends, brain:)

What's the 14th month?

But putting the day before the month is wrong.

Half the fucking world would beg to differ
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country#Usage_map
- Speaking as someone from a blue country on that map. Most of the world is wrong though. The ISO standard is designed that way for a reason. Not putting the largest unit first is just silly.
  Also https://m.xkcd.com/1179/
Shame there isn't a 31st of April then, could make it extra wrong.
- I don't mind having an excuse to get ourselves a new calendar system :P
Pretty sure that iso standard of yours specifies using what you call military time, or 24 hour time system, which USA doesn't use widely, so even they don't use this standard
- What are you even talking about?
  Most countries use a 24hr clock
  Many countries that use a 24hr clock don’t even use ISO8601 officially.
  The only countries I know officially use ISO8601 are certain East Asian countries.
  I don’t think they even use ISO8601 in the US Military.

But then we'd have to deal with the savage barbarism of writing it with the day before the month.

then write the year before the month before the day 😈
- Always do
Going by the numbers, using DD/MM is the civilised way and MM/DD the archaic one.

Not in America it ain't. Nobody fucking puts the day before the month.

I think America is outnumbered on that matter.
unless you are using ISO 8601 then i think u should...
- Invalid argument as the ISO standard must include years. Not including years is just garbage
Year/Month/Day is the way.
Month/Day/Year you should fear.
Remind me again what your national day is called?
- July 4th, or the 4th OF July, or just Independence Day. No one calls it 4 July.
Guess ya'll just have to adapt to a better system.
Give up on imperial while you're at it too, you'll be happier in the long run.