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I was just wondering why a feature as simple as this one with lots of demands is still not implemented (or rejected). (6 years !!)

sdegutis 10y ago
Pretty funny how an ambiguous date format ("1/5/10") led to two interpretations of how long ago this was (6 or 10 years ago). To clarify: at the time of initially writing this comment, there were only two comments in this thread: the parent of this comment, which said it was 6 years ago; and another, which said it was 10 years ago. I don't know or care whether it was legitimate for either to come to the conclusion they did, I just thought it was funny, and that it was most likely due to the super-short date format inside the link. Can we move on please?
- jjnoakes 10y ago
  How can 1/5/10 be interpreted as 10 years ago? The only two interpretations I can think of are "January 5, 2010" and "May 1, 2010".
  - douche 10y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country Peer into the madness, and quake in fear.
    - jjnoakes 10y ago
      Sorry, I understand that different locales use different orderings, and I scanned that chart, but I still don't see how "1/5/10" could have anything but the "10" refer to the year. Is there a country that uses one-digit years in their dates (unless referring to 1AD or 5AD)?
      - richrichardsson 10y ago
        South Africa use the Year/Month/Day order, and if one assumes these strings were converted to integers and that the conversion implies any number of preceding zeros are ignored, then that could be 10th of May 2001
        jjnoakes 10y ago
        I use year/month/day order too (so does ISO) but we all pad out our years to 2 or 4 digits. If the only way to interpret "1/5/10" as 2001 is to assume the formatting is hosed, then I guess one could also assume the character encoding was mangled and the bytes for "1" and "5" should perhaps be in a crazy encoding (think ebcdic on steroids) that maps them to "7" and "-2". So I guess assuming the date "1/5/10" could refer to the year 2BC is about as logical as assuming it could refer to 2001? And the 10th of May, 2001, wasn't 10 years ago anyway (not that it is relevant)...
    - mrec 10y ago
      My all-time favourite was .NET running in a Thai locale interpreting standard "completely unambiguous" ISO yyyy-MM-dd as a Buddhist calendar year, i.e. Gregorian year + 543. Hilarity ensued.
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    I don't see where 10ya comes from, but DMY, MDY, and YMD, at least, are all plausible interpretations.
    - jjnoakes 10y ago
      YMD is only plausible if the first number is 2-digits or 4-digits. How is "1" a year? Unless we're talking about 1AD...
      - dragonwriter 10y ago
        > YMD is only plausible if the first number is 2-digits or 4-digits. How is "1" a year? During the first decade of the 21st Century, I regularly encountered dates, especially handwritten, with single digit years, because some people first reduce to a two-digit year when writing dates, but then -- as with any other number -- leave off leading zeros.
        coldpie 10y ago
        Really? I don't think I've ever seen this, though I guess I don't deal with a lot of handwritten dates.
        jjnoakes 10y ago
        The date in question ("1/5/10") was formatted by a computer, so hand-written dates seem pretty far off topic. But even ignoring that, I've never ever seen a single person write a single-digit year. Not alone ("I graduated in 1" vs "I graduated in 2001"), not in dates ("August 7, 1" vs "August 7, 2001"), not anywhere.
      - qw 10y ago
        The single digits in the date are not prefixed with a zero. So "1" could be interpreted as 2001. Why would the first digit be prefixed with zero but not the middle digit ("5").
    - Riseed 10y ago
      One of the comments says: > when I searched on the problem just now, I found complaints about the same problem going back to 2006.
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- retox 10y ago
  Using a British English copy of android in Firefox the date of the first post is 05/01/2010 for me...
  - kalleboo 10y ago
    Yeah, with my Japanese locale it shows up as 2010/01/06
- kentt 10y ago
  Perhaps it's 2006 years old?

sdegutis 10y ago

Pretty funny how an ambiguous date format ("1/5/10") led to two interpretations of how long ago this was (6 or 10 years ago). To clarify: at the time of initially writing this comment, there were only two comments in this thread: the parent of this comment, which said it was 6 years ago; and another, which said it was 10 years ago. I don't know or care whether it was legitimate for either to come to the conclusion they did, I just thought it was funny, and that it was most likely due to the super-short date format inside the link. Can we move on please?

jjnoakes 10y ago
How can 1/5/10 be interpreted as 10 years ago? The only two interpretations I can think of are "January 5, 2010" and "May 1, 2010".
- douche 10y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country Peer into the madness, and quake in fear.
  - jjnoakes 10y ago
    Sorry, I understand that different locales use different orderings, and I scanned that chart, but I still don't see how "1/5/10" could have anything but the "10" refer to the year. Is there a country that uses one-digit years in their dates (unless referring to 1AD or 5AD)?
    - richrichardsson 10y ago
      South Africa use the Year/Month/Day order, and if one assumes these strings were converted to integers and that the conversion implies any number of preceding zeros are ignored, then that could be 10th of May 2001
      - jjnoakes 10y ago
        I use year/month/day order too (so does ISO) but we all pad out our years to 2 or 4 digits. If the only way to interpret "1/5/10" as 2001 is to assume the formatting is hosed, then I guess one could also assume the character encoding was mangled and the bytes for "1" and "5" should perhaps be in a crazy encoding (think ebcdic on steroids) that maps them to "7" and "-2". So I guess assuming the date "1/5/10" could refer to the year 2BC is about as logical as assuming it could refer to 2001? And the 10th of May, 2001, wasn't 10 years ago anyway (not that it is relevant)...
  - mrec 10y ago
    My all-time favourite was .NET running in a Thai locale interpreting standard "completely unambiguous" ISO yyyy-MM-dd as a Buddhist calendar year, i.e. Gregorian year + 543. Hilarity ensued.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  I don't see where 10ya comes from, but DMY, MDY, and YMD, at least, are all plausible interpretations.
  - jjnoakes 10y ago
    YMD is only plausible if the first number is 2-digits or 4-digits. How is "1" a year? Unless we're talking about 1AD...
    - dragonwriter 10y ago
      > YMD is only plausible if the first number is 2-digits or 4-digits. How is "1" a year? During the first decade of the 21st Century, I regularly encountered dates, especially handwritten, with single digit years, because some people first reduce to a two-digit year when writing dates, but then -- as with any other number -- leave off leading zeros.
      - coldpie 10y ago
        Really? I don't think I've ever seen this, though I guess I don't deal with a lot of handwritten dates.
      - jjnoakes 10y ago
        The date in question ("1/5/10") was formatted by a computer, so hand-written dates seem pretty far off topic. But even ignoring that, I've never ever seen a single person write a single-digit year. Not alone ("I graduated in 1" vs "I graduated in 2001"), not in dates ("August 7, 1" vs "August 7, 2001"), not anywhere.
    - qw 10y ago
      The single digits in the date are not prefixed with a zero. So "1" could be interpreted as 2001. Why would the first digit be prefixed with zero but not the middle digit ("5").
  - Riseed 10y ago
    One of the comments says: > when I searched on the problem just now, I found complaints about the same problem going back to 2006.
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retox 10y ago
Using a British English copy of android in Firefox the date of the first post is 05/01/2010 for me...
- kalleboo 10y ago
  Yeah, with my Japanese locale it shows up as 2010/01/06
kentt 10y ago
Perhaps it's 2006 years old?