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Thank you for noticing, somebody is reading until the end ;-) I will fix this right away! Update: fixed.

• sulam 9y ago
  Future readers thank you. :)
• jwilk 9y ago
  Please consider using a sane date format. https://xkcd.com/1179/ https://xkcd.com/1179/
  • jazoom 9y ago
    What's not "sane" about the format most of the world uses? dd/mm/yy Maybe you meant "unambiguous"?
    • nerdponx 9y ago
      "Ambiguous" and "insane" are best friends.
      • jazoom 9y ago
        In this case it's only ambiguous because a populated country uses an insane version and plasters those insanely-formatted dates all over the world wide web.
        • tatersolid 9y ago
          The middle-endian format makes perfect sense as it is the same order of elements used in spoken English: “April 22nd 2017” = “4/22/2017”. I’ve never heard anyone say “22nd of April 2017” in normal conversation. Maybe on a wedding invite.
          • jazoom 9y ago
            Based on our conversation I'm guessing you're American. FYI: In Australia we say "22nd of April 2017".
            • tatersolid 9y ago
              Yes, but I also understand you folks like to flush your toilets in the wrong direction and drive on the wrong side of the road. Date word order seems trivial by comparison. We’re two countries separated by a common language.
    • jwilk 9y ago
      FWIW, the article currently uses the middle-endian mm/dd/yy.
    • tatersolid 9y ago
      Most of the world does not use that format. It is ambiguous because a large swath of the Earth population uses mm/dd/yy. Including the USA, but also many others. This is why ISO-8601 was published 30 years ago.
      • jazoom 9y ago
        Did you have a source for that? Wikipedia disagrees with you. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
        • tatersolid 9y ago
          Ok then s/most/much Over 2.8 billion people, a bit less than half of the worlds population commonly use a date format other than dd/mm/yy. My point stands; use ISO-8601 to avoid ambiguity. We run a SaaS application that spits out ISO-8601 date formats in reports. Hundreds of thousands of “normal humans” seem to under that format just fine.
          • jazoom 9y ago
            The only thing you took issue with was me saying most of the world uses dd/mm/yy. In fact, I suggested that it is ambiguous for the reason you described. I'm not sure what you're trying to convince me of.
            • tatersolid 9y ago
              I inferred from the tone that you were suggesting the whole world adopt “your” chosen date format. Text-based messaging is not great for expressing or deciphering non-literal meaning.