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that way would work fine, too. i can look at that and tell what date we are talking about at a glance. the real problem is displaying both the month and the da
by allenbrunson 9y ago
that way would work fine, too. i can look at that and tell what date we are talking about at a glance.
the real problem is displaying both the month and the day of the month as one- or two-digit numbers, which leads to ambiguity. display the month as a three-character string, and the year as a four-digit number, and we are all on the same page again.
- kuschku 9y agoActually it doesn’t, there’s standards for that. YYYY-MM-DD DD.MM.YYYY MM/DD/YYYY Notice the separators. Except for parts of Japan and Australia, these are international standards and used everywhere.
- allenbrunson 9y agoit's pretty obvious that, if those standards were being followed all the time, we wouldn't be having this conversation. i am talking about an ad hoc, fairly simple thing one can do, if one is writing user-facing code. it's a rule i follow, and i offered it up as something other people might want to try as well.