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		thfuran on Oct 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say... I think you switched around your sixes and nines.

tomjakubowski on Oct 14, 2023 [–]

I don't think I mixed it up

> No human uses “more that 24 hours” as the definition of “yesterday”. Computers, unfortunately, do.

At 9pm on Oct 14, 6pm on Oct 13 was > 24 hours ago, and people would still call it "yesterday".

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