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Is this really that difficult? I was born and raised in the US but have been traveling around the world for almost the last year and it gets easy REALLY fast t
by wutbrodo 11y ago
Is this really that difficult? I was born and raised in the US but have been traveling around the world for almost the last year and it gets easy REALLY fast to switch between them, especially when one of the interpretations is clearly incompatible (like in this case where there's no 14th month). I've had probably more than a 100 lodging and train and flight bookings and I've yet to find it confusing.
Though I do think that it's stupid that we use middle endian dates. My habit has become to just put the unambiguous fullyear-month-day.
- falcolas 11y agoI imagine it's due to the lack of context. If you see the date 11/2/12, what date is it? If I'm in America, I assume that it's M/D/Y, making it November 2, 2012. If I'm not in America, then I assume it's D/M/Y, making it February 11, 2012. But if I'm on the internet, I have no fricking clue. I agree on the unambiguous version - as a side effect, it sorts very nicely.
- Piskvorrr 11y agoAnd if you're the genius somewhere in the neighboring thread using YY/MM/DD, it's February 12, 2011. Heuristically, "if it has slashes, it's USian mm/dd/yy, if it has dots, it's European dd.mm.yy, if it has dashes, it's ISOish yy-mm-dd, YMMV."
- stordoff 11y agoI can switch between them without issue, but (especially online) you don't always have the context needed to decide which to use. If I come across, say, "01/05/2016", unless I know the country of origin for the site, I have no idea if that is 2016 May 1 or 2016 Jan 5.