I mean oddities mostly. I corelate the area code of my highschool love, and often the birthday of another. It has no significance beyond a few pleasant memories, but it is just one of life’s oddities for me. Do you experience similar oddities?

  • Jake [he/him]@lemmy.mlOP
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    Like at 7:04 you might think of July 4th. All numerical dates are represented on a 12 hour clock (e: if you’re using mmdd). I’m asking if your pattern recognition software is picking up on such a meaningless correlation and giving it some pleasant side effect or if that is not a very common mental connection.

    • QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      7 months ago

      All numerical dates are represented on a 12 hour clock.

      Only if you use mmdd date format. The majority of the world uses ddmm.

      • Jake [he/him]@lemmy.mlOP
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        7 months ago

        Yeah, but neither makes sense any more. I use yymmdd in my default file naming for natural sorting hierarchy. I just don’t think in that context. I guess that makes this post an interesting reflection from a couple of extra angles.

        Our US 3 digit area codes for phone number regions are likely not really paralleled elsewhere in the world either. It’s interesting all the little cultural subtleties that shape the mind.