[thesh4d0w]

Hard to correlate this to any real world events when the X axis is in days since epoch, rather than a human intelligible format.

[forgotmypw17]

    2020 1577836800 15
    2021 1609459200 16
    2022 1640995200 16
    2023 1672531200 16
    2024 1704067200 17
    2025 1735689600 17

[jonatron]

Hopefully someone else can use the CSV to make a graph that isn't terrible

[garyfirestorm]

here you go https://imgur.com/a/Hh6wroq

[crote]

What's the bump in 2017? Did a iOS update start auto-correcting a bare "-" to "—" or something?

[jonatron]

Looks like it auto-corrects -- to — https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2017/7/6/dash-dash-it-all from iOS 11

[lcnPylGDnU4H9OF]

iOS currently converts "--" to "—". No clue when that started, though.

[intervolz]

here you go: https://intervolz.com/emdash-observer/

[jonatron]

Thanks, looks good! You should submit it

[intervolz]

Submitted! Thank you for the encouragement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46314672