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xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard (imgs.xkcd.com)
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xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard

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Anyone who is caught counting 'three ... two ... one ... zero ... GO!' will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.

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Anyone who is caught counting 'three ... two ... one ... zero ... GO!' will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago*

(Funnily enough, if we're invoking ISO 8601, it also defines that weeks are anchored to a year by whatever year their Thursday is in.)

That’s awesome, thanks for sharing. I did not know that.

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