• RLB (unregistered)

    For the frist one: two-letter ISO codes.

  • dusoft (unregistered) in reply to RLB

    Good catch (if it's so...)

  • (nodebb)

    I would much rather experience pool accidents in Ibiza, than to be passed on for VP nomination, THAT'S FOR SURE.

  • ISO (unregistered)

    The first one is sorted based on ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

    Sao Tome -> ST El Salvador -> SV Sint Maarten -> SX Syria -> SY

    plus, no Switzerland (CH)

  • (nodebb)

    "11 de septiembre" probably just means that while the phone language is English, the regional settings for dates are set to Spanish.

  • David-T (unregistered) in reply to tom103

    Yes, but why is it showing the weather for 11-Sep in July?

  • (nodebb) in reply to tom103

    The bigger issue is that is say "Septiembre" which is Spanish for "September", when the current month is August..

    Addendum 2024-08-09 09:03: *says

    Addendum 2024-08-09 09:06: Oops, the current month in the screenshot is July, so it's off by two months!

  • Kevin (unregistered)

    They totally forgot that not only does everyone in MA have an M.A., everyone in Maryland(MD) is a Medical Doctor. Many times I have gotten very confusing google results about doctors ... then realized I need to spell out Maryland.

  • Tinkle (unregistered)

    Is the final one where big 0 notation comes from?

  • Paul (unregistered) in reply to gordonfish

    Nah. He was just in Argentina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_de_Septiembre

  • Deeseearr (unregistered)

    The Date and Weather one makes sense, it's just a display issue.

    The screenshot was taken on September 11289, 1993 and the notification was only expecting a two digit day.

  • (nodebb)

    Susan maintains an Excel spreadsheet of all the countries and you aren't allowed to change the order of them.

  • Tim K. (unregistered) in reply to Paul

    OMG Thank you for solving this for me! I was wondering why it was stuck on that "date" for days on end. And I was in fact able to confirm that the weather app thought I was in Buenos Aires soon after I submitted this. I was unaware there was a location there called Once de Septiembre. Looking back at the app after not having thought about this in several days, it refreshes to the correct location after deleting 11 de Septiembre. I still don't know how that became my default location to begin with...

  • Dex (unregistered) in reply to Paul

    So amazing that Once de Septiembre is in Tres de Febrero.

  • (nodebb)

    I didn't know that Chinese had cased versions of its numerals. I only knew about the uppercase "arabic numerals" from Mavis Beacon, https://xkcd.com/2206/

  • Stuart (unregistered)

    Fun fact: English also has lowercase digits. It's relatively rare nowadays, but they are a thing. They're just generally not encoded as such (Unicode considers them to be glyph variants, not a separate distinct set of characters.)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures

  • Strahd Ivarius (unregistered) in reply to Dex

    Beware of the leopard...

  • (nodebb) in reply to Tim K.

    I still don't know how that became my default location to begin with...

    It's either a stale entry in the IP Address to Location database (because IP addresses are always being shuffled around by ISPs) or someone else had recently moved a device from there to near where you were and that was propagating bad/outdated information. All of which points to there being a bunch of crazy hacks in use when GPS is acting up, some of which are distinctly less than perfect.

    I once had something similar, except between Hong Kong and the UK. The location history records for that day decided that I must have been oscillating back and forth between the two locations at a frequency of around 0.1 Hz for a period of about 10 minutes...

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