For speaking or writing it out going month then day feels natural, although I know it’s a regional thing. If you’re going number format, it should always go smallest to largest (DD-MM-YYYY) or largest to smallest (YYYY-MM-DD). For file names, definitely the latter so you can sort by alphabetical and everything is in order.
For speaking or writing it out going month then day feels natural
Yes, of course. Go to google translate and type in october 2nd 2023. Change the target language.
Yes, yes. Feet, miles, liquid miles, solid football fields and other nonsense also feels natural.
2nd of October seems the same as intuitive as October 2nd to me.
For whatever reason, I know that one mile is 1760 yards or 5280 feet, but difficulty comes when doing anything with those numbers (e.g. How many yards in 5.2 miles? How many meters in 5.2 km? One is definitely easier to do). Maybe my chosen vocation of Engineering means I encounter unit conversions more frequently than most people. I dislike the weird combination of gauge vs 1/xths of an inch that pops up time to time (drill and screw diameters). I don’t see how one mile is more intuitive than one kilometre as a distance.
I’m not sure about the meter vs yard, they are almost the same in terms of intuitiveness as well as actual value.
I just took a measurement of my fingers and my little finger nail is about a cm wide and my foreknuckle and index knuckle separation is about an inch.
I use inches in wargaming because I grew up with warhammer miniatures which classically come on 25 mm bases, though they’re switching to 30 mm to increase the size of infantry miniatures. At a certain point there’s a balance between battlefield resolution and readability, which 25 mm bases seem fine for.
Weights are even more baffling. I think I know what an ounce is, but I hate trying to multiply it out when Americans say something is 14 ounces or something.
I know what pints are because of beer.
Temperature is annoying for both because you have to find the little symbol not present on my keyboard.
Nah, meters are very straightforward and easy to work with. How far is a kilofoot? God only knows, but a kilometre is a trivially visualized distance. What’s 1/100 of a foot? Dunno, but with meters it’s a centimeter which is, again intuitively easy to grasp.
The original definition of a meter was 1/10000000 of the distance from the equator to the poles, hence the circumference of Earth being 40000km.
Metric isn’t intuitive to you because you aren’t used to using it. Relevant xkcd.
Sure, feet might be intuitive, but that’s the exception. What’s an inch? Or a mile? Or a cup? Cups come in more sizes than feet do!
That’s for feet only, how about the other measurements? Each person feet also different with each other, it’s kinda weird to just assume children length of their feet is the same with adult’s.
IIRC 1 metre originally is a length choosen so that Earth circumference is 40000km, the later definition is more stable standardization, because turn out you can’t get precise lengths doing that.
