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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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Source: https://xkcd.com/3232/

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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.