Pi day is an irrational holiday that was invented by Big US Date Format.

[mattblaze@federate.social]

Pi day is an irrational holiday that was invented by Big US Date Format.

[human3500@ottawa.place]

@mattblaze
We forgive it not following ISO standards because WE GET PIE!

[christopherbrown@mastodon.social]

@mattblaze Spicy take.

[wildeyedboyfromfreecloud@masto.ai]

@mattblaze Mind posting the regex?

[lemonlolita@calckey.world]

@mattblaze@federate.social
True, it should be celebrated on the 3rd day of the fourteenth month.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@mattblaze Month goes before day in ISO form too, just not legacy European forms. Just the year placement differs.

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@lemonlolita
I'm gonna celebrate Pi Day 2026 on the 3rd of February 2027, in proper European fashion
@mattblaze

[derrydavis@techhub.social]

@mattblaze that's all fine and well but the important question is, what pie are you having?
#ShepardsPie here

[jamesmarshall@sfba.social]

@mattblaze I find it transcendental.

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@human3500 @mattblaze On Tau day we get two.

[transportist@mastodon.social]

@mattblaze Are you saying we should celebrate Duodecember the Third instead?

[stuartb@social.teamb.space]

@mattblaze The rest of the world shoud start celebrating Pi Day on July 22nd.

[dveditz@infosec.exchange]

@mattblaze
Europeans can keep waiting for April 31 to happen

[llewelly@sauropods.win]

@mattblaze
format will clean your hard drive, but if that's your Big Date you'll be left feeling empty.

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@mattblaze unfortunately there's no third of Duodecember (3/14)

[cobbpg@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@peterbrown @dalias @mattblaze It entirely depends on your native language/culture. For instance, in Hungary we use year-month-day, and therefore I always found it more logical than any alternative.

[dveditz@infosec.exchange]

@peterbrown @dalias @mattblaze

These days we tend to say "March fourteenth" and our US written dates reflect that (3/14). In Olde Tymes we said "fourth of July" and the UK written form (4/7) reflects that. I'm not sure which changed first, though I suspect speech.