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[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 28 points 23 hours ago

Now that you pointed it out, this annoys me more than people who put the currency sign after the amount.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 45 points 22 hours ago

Welcome to Europa were we do exactly that, as the placement of the currency symbol is a locale thing not a universal.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yeah I know, it drives me crazy.

It's also annoying when Europeans swap the comma and decimal on currency amounts too, especially given that you don't do that when writing sentences. Few things more infuriating than seeing an amount written out like 2.999,95€! Where are your manners!?

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 44 points 22 hours ago

USAian defaultism is always hilarious

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago

I can't help that I was born here. FWIW I'm not a blind patriot, I just have autism.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 11 points 22 hours ago

I see, that's understandable. We all have pet-peeves. Mine is the date format in the US that has spread month-day-year. Most of Europe is day-month-year and it's very confusing when people start adopting US formats because they watch so much stuff from the US.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 21 points 22 hours ago

IMO any date standard other than ISO 8601 is wrong too. Year-Month-Date makes the most sense from a chronological standpoint. Also makes sorting files by date easier.

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

That used to be what letters were expected to have in Germany but because nobody actually stuck to that law they made it optional, instead also allowing the much more common dd.mm.yyyy which is almost as acceptable in my opinion.

[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

It's only useful for storing data, in the real world you want to know the day and sometimes the month, is very rae to want to know the year

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 21 hours ago

Something tells me that ISO was created to make programming easier. Time/date stuff on computers are a menace in general.

[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

RFC3339 is also acceptable

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 20 hours ago

It's not just Americans that use the comma as a spacer and a period for a decimal

[-] starik@lemmy.today 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Get off our internet if you don’t like it 🇺🇸🔫💪

[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 9 points 18 hours ago

The set of communication protocols to enable internetworking on the Internet arose from research and development commissioned in the 1970s by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense in collaboration with universities and researchers across the United States, United Kingdom and France.[4][5][6]

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

The Web was invented by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN

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

Bloody ignorant loud mouth Americans claiming credit for group projects, as usual.

[-] starik@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago

Yep, we employ people from all over the world.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

stares at you in Australian

[-] expr@programming.dev 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

"It's so infuriating when people communicate in ways I'm not used to!"

Doesn't sound great.

According to ISO 80000-1, the decimal separator can either be a period or a comma, and no preference is given to either. Many American software systems support both (including the software I work on). It's really quite normal and mundane.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

manners? Where is your freedom, as you took that notation (0,000.00) from your british overlords.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Well like I said to the other person, it's not a "I think the US is superior" thing; very much the opposite. I simply have autism. (ADHD too but that's not relevant here.)

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 6 points 22 hours ago

Where are your manners!?

That's alright, but "Where are your manners!?" comes off a bit hostile. But in any case, have a nice day.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Don't worry I'm just being cheeky. I inserted that bit to keep the comment lighthearted.

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

One of my favorite things about Lemmy is how many of us are in the autism/ADHD neurotribe, or at least have an understanding about it. We can read your response and be like, "Oh, okay. Yeah, I get where you're coming from" and roll along, without the need for senseless hostility.

Just another day, another misinterpretation - we've all been there. Carry on.

[-] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago

People who deviate from the rule that units go after the number drive me batty.

Like what, is the US equivalent of X €/kWh written $ X / kWh or something??? Absolutely disgusting

[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Wait until ypu discover that were i live we use those:

  • 2.000.000,34
  • 2'000'000,34
  • 2 000 000,34

And that what you use depends on who your teacher was XD

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 15 points 22 hours ago

To me putting it first feels funny. Euro 100, instead of 100 euros. While writing it you need to remember to put the symbol before writing the amount. Funny thing

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 13 points 22 hours ago

I dont know why that annoys me. It does annoy me but it shouldn't because at least it has a logic to it.

£2 Is spoken "two pounds" not "pound two"

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 20 hours ago

Is because with it being before, you get to know that the number is for a currency immediately, instead of finding out it's a currency afterwards

[-] SharkWeek 9 points 18 hours ago

Yes, I too deal with amounts of money large enough that I can't see the end when I start reading it!

[-] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 18 hours ago

You bought some RAM recently?

[-] SharkWeek 6 points 18 hours ago

Tried to ... it turned out cheaper to just pay someone to strip it out of flock cameras instead

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