Ah, yes, quite a few systems use that. Iirc, when I first got into research I believe it was SPSS that have me pause (maybe STATA) when dates seemed to reference day in the 60s. It’s been a while so I don’t remember the specifics, but I always thought it was a neat way to handle dates.

Maybe it was 1 January 1970, the Unix epoch

(Pay)checks and (account) balances?

Also, interplanetary timezones and leaps.

https://lemmy.world/comment/13227444

https://lemmy.world/comment/13227488

PayPal isn’t great but it’s a relatively easy way to send money and very common.

There’s also Wise, and various other smaller apps.

You can actually find the map used by the British which showed just how much territory they were willing to give to America after the revolutionary war,

This piqued my curiosity. It took some digging but I found what you’re referring to - any other curious readers can search their favourite engine for the following:

“Oswalt red line map treaty of Paris”

There aren’t many sources and none are particularly high quality, but it’s certainly interesting.

Canadians don’t have Venmo either 🙃