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October 14, 2014 11:29 AM Subscribe
Today, October 14, 2014, is World Standards Day! Except in the USA, where it's celebrated October 23, 2014. (Canada splits the difference by celebrating it on October 15).
The UK also celebrates it on the 15th but only in the car.
posted by Talez at 11:40 AM on October 14, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by Talez at 11:40 AM on October 14, 2014 [3 favorites]
Canada just wings it.
The Standards Council of Canada (SCC), Canada's national accreditation body, celebrates World Standards Day together with the international community by observing the day near the dates of the international observance. In 2012 SCC celebrated World Standards Day on Friday, 12 October.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 11:46 AM on October 14, 2014 [1 favorite]
The Standards Council of Canada (SCC), Canada's national accreditation body, celebrates World Standards Day together with the international community by observing the day near the dates of the international observance. In 2012 SCC celebrated World Standards Day on Friday, 12 October.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 11:46 AM on October 14, 2014 [1 favorite]
Except in the USA, where it's celebrated October 23, 2014.
isn't that already CROCKETY BLOAT day though
posted by poffin boffin at 11:47 AM on October 14, 2014 [2 favorites]
isn't that already CROCKETY BLOAT day though
posted by poffin boffin at 11:47 AM on October 14, 2014 [2 favorites]
When I hear "Standard", I think of something else. My grandfather worked for Standard Oil of Ohio, reporting directly to one of the heirs of founder John D. Rockefeller (doing what, my grandmother never explained). He died in his late 40s (in the 1940s) of a heart attack. My grandmother, who had just finished raising my mother and two uncles, had to get a job with a department store, because despite Grandpa's close proximity to the Halls of Power, stock options and key employee life insurance were not yet (ahem) the Standard.
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:58 AM on October 14, 2014
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:58 AM on October 14, 2014
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| HUMANITY | |
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| couldn't even agree | |
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| World Standards Day | |
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isn't that already CROCKETY BLOAT day though
IT IS ALSO MY BIRTHDAY
YES I AM YELLING
I AM YELLING BECAUSE NONE OF YOU FUCKERS GOT ME THE VODKA I ASKED FOR LAST YEAR
THAT IS ALL
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 12:13 PM on October 14, 2014 [1 favorite]
IT IS ALSO MY BIRTHDAY
YES I AM YELLING
I AM YELLING BECAUSE NONE OF YOU FUCKERS GOT ME THE VODKA I ASKED FOR LAST YEAR
THAT IS ALL
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 12:13 PM on October 14, 2014 [1 favorite]
Except in the USA, where it's celebrated October 23, 2014. (Canada splits the difference by celebrating it on October 15).
*facepalm*
posted by ZenMasterThis at 12:13 PM on October 14, 2014
*facepalm*
posted by ZenMasterThis at 12:13 PM on October 14, 2014
I don't know why you all find this so weird. It seems perfectly appropriate for a world standards day to have several different standards, even within the same country.
posted by jeather at 12:19 PM on October 14, 2014
posted by jeather at 12:19 PM on October 14, 2014
The link for Canada shows a networking event scheduled for October 15, but isn't clear if we celebrate the date on the 14th or 15th. Kind of like how a Christmas party may not take place on Christmas itself. I am holding out hope that we actually do celebrate* on the proper date.
* For some nerd-ish value of celebrate.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 12:22 PM on October 14, 2014
* For some nerd-ish value of celebrate.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 12:22 PM on October 14, 2014
Ways this could have been less ironic:
posted by ianso at 12:24 PM on October 14, 2014 [1 favorite]
- Note the plural: standardS. After first naming the day in the initial RFC, they realised there had to be more than one standard in order to maintain backwards compatibility with the pre-existing title implementations.
- We should all have our own standards! Other suggested slogans were 'It's not about how many there are, but how high they are.' and 'Standards: have some.'
- Standard, n., "a long narrow tapering flag that is personal to an individual or corporation and bears heraldic devices.".
- There is actually only one standard. But you can't celebrate it if it's not there, can you? Stands to reason. So they celebrate it on different days to allow for the time needed to disassemble, pack, ship, get through customs, reassemble, and recalibrate the standard so it can be complied with in the correct alignment at each celebration.
posted by ianso at 12:24 PM on October 14, 2014 [1 favorite]
Note the plural: standardS.
As the saying goes: "I love standards; there are so many to choose from."
posted by Herodios at 12:33 PM on October 14, 2014 [2 favorites]
As the saying goes: "I love standards; there are so many to choose from."
posted by Herodios at 12:33 PM on October 14, 2014 [2 favorites]
Don't worry about the wrong date, we just applied for a waiver.
posted by backseatpilot at 12:45 PM on October 14, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by backseatpilot at 12:45 PM on October 14, 2014 [2 favorites]
This is not a post about Jazz?
posted by OHenryPacey at 2:55 PM on October 14, 2014
posted by OHenryPacey at 2:55 PM on October 14, 2014
Maybe the US will move it to the 14th when they adopt the metric system.
posted by yoga at 4:53 PM on October 14, 2014
posted by yoga at 4:53 PM on October 14, 2014
The absolute best standard is, of course, the Smoot, in part because Smoot himself eventually became chairman of the American National Standards Institute.
Plus, it leads to only-in-Boston sentences in Boston Globe articles such as the following from a story today about somebody donating $2.5 million for LED lights along the Harvard Bridge (which does not, directly, go to Harvard, of course): "Mood lighting? How about smoot lighting."
posted by adamg at 6:05 PM on October 14, 2014 [5 favorites]
Plus, it leads to only-in-Boston sentences in Boston Globe articles such as the following from a story today about somebody donating $2.5 million for LED lights along the Harvard Bridge (which does not, directly, go to Harvard, of course): "Mood lighting? How about smoot lighting."
posted by adamg at 6:05 PM on October 14, 2014 [5 favorites]
So there is an SI World Standards Day and a USCS World Standards Day, and therein lies a weird self-referential situation. Wonder what World Standards Day is in Liberia and Burma.
posted by jet_silver at 7:50 PM on October 14, 2014
posted by jet_silver at 7:50 PM on October 14, 2014
Pretty sure Standards Day is Oct 23rd in the US because a mole is 6.02 x 10^23. Since we write dates Month-Day this makes sense. It would not make sense where the date is written Day-Month as 23^10 is not a particularly interesting number, aside from being the power of a prime.
posted by maryr at 8:47 AM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by maryr at 8:47 AM on October 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
Saint Avogadro's Day!
Loving this thread, it's turning out to be a real gas -- an ideal gas.
posted by Herodios at 8:57 AM on October 15, 2014
Loving this thread, it's turning out to be a real gas -- an ideal gas.
posted by Herodios at 8:57 AM on October 15, 2014
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