What is SpaceFN and why you should give it a try
The SpaceFN concept - setting up your space key as a layer switch when held - is probably one of the most useful tweaks in the keyboard hobby. Let me explain how it works. My SpaceFN article on kbd.news made some rounds recently - quite surprisingly given the age of this concept. This piece you're reading is a condensed version of the full post. If you're left with unanswered questions, you'll most likely find the info you're looking for in the original write-up. On my imaginary top list of the most useful keyboard features, tweaks and hacks, SpaceFN would deserve a podium finish for sure. But what makes it so special? In short: SpaceFN is easy to implement, easy to learn, costs nothing, can be used with any keyboard, and can improve your productivity instantly. I will list its benefits below, but can state right at this point that the SpaceFN concept, setting up your space key as a layer switch when held, is clearly one of the most useful tweaks in the keyboard hobby....
Apr 30, 2024
Expect an update from us by the end of the day Pacific Time on 7/16 or sooner if something comes up.
When you say 8/12 I understand 08-DEZ-2015. Was that what you meant?
I remember that it was said it would be shipped by some point in August. In this case, your international audience should have heard from you: 12-AUG-2015. Was that what you meant?
Thanks.
The point of communication is communicating clearly.
And communicating dates clearly is about avoiding confusion if there's room for confusion. Obviously if you say 4/13 there's no room for confusion. But if you say 4/5 there is. Not for you guys. But for all the rest of the world there is. And no! ... the rest of the world does not necessarily share your culture and habits.
The internation convention for dates is the ISO standard. Simple as that.
When I talk to Brits I can say 4/5 and they clearly understand it's 4th of May. Is that what you understand? Certainly not. Because I know that it's not the case, I should say 04-MAY-2015 when I talk to an international audience. No room for doubts about the day, the month and the year. Simple as that.
GMT is a standard because Britain overcomed France is this sort of battle for the most important meridian and also overcomed in other battles. There are historic reasons for that. But this is red herring.
If you say that something costs USD 100.00 I can visit a FX website and convert to all currencies around the world. Again... it's not redundant.
But it is redundant to say 4/5 when you are talking to an international audience. I do not know the origin of the person communicating. If that person is British, 4/5 means 4th of May. The same for Brazilians. And the same for the majority of the world.
And it does not matter whether Massdrop is American or not. There are no firewalls blocking Massdrop to the world. And Massdrop delivers virtually to the entire world. We live in a global economy and global standards must be employed when there's room for redundancy.
ty for your answer and explanation. I'm from Germany and was threated with "Oxford English" in school more than 40 years ago and found it very pleasing to learn the "real deal" later in the USA, because it wasn't so "stiff (with a stick in the butt), but i honestly cant remember having had problems with understanding the date at all.
I did ask, because i know some people which havn't had any english lessons in school, which might be hard to understand for some folks.
Cheers
Expecting everyone else to use it just because you want them to is absurd. People are free to use the Mayan calendar if they wish, as long as they are willing to deal with its consequences (Someone complaining about choice of calendars does not count as a consequence. Losing a sale does, perhaps).
You can inform yourself at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_imperialism ;)
At any rate, 4/2 is more natural than 2/4 because actually in written and spoken English (not machine read, since we are not machines here), preferred date usage is "April 2, YYYY" and not "2 April, YYYY."
Edit: I am not sure if this thread is hilarious or useless. Perhaps both :D
Given that the drop had the ship date listed on the drop as a written month, two-digit day and four-digit year, and that the 8/12 date mentioned is precisely the same and that the 7/16 date can't be mistaken as there aren't 16 months in even an ISO year, there shouldn't have been a complaint to contend with in the beginning.
And by the way, that was sarcasm, not irony.
Oh and the word wouldn't be "redundant" from your other post, as that according to the Oxford Dictionary means, "Not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous". "Unclear" or "potentially misleading" would have been more appropriate.
To be honest, with all of the drops where people whine and complain about international shipping, I'm surprised that there are any international orders at all.
I'm surprised you didn't also complain about the reversed use of commas and periods in numbers.