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> A lone post back in November That would be amazing, but that story was Jan 10th. The next one was Jan 21st. Also not the oldest, https://news.ycombinator.c
by iso1631 7y ago
> A lone post back in November
That would be amazing, but that story was Jan 10th. The next one was Jan 21st.
Also not the oldest, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22000761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22000761 is a day earlier, and refers to a BBC report dated Jan 9th
- anewlanguage 7y agoI see the problem: I read the date in American format (mm/dd/yyyy) and it's dd/mm/yyyy. That's a very confusing date format, yyyy/mm/dd is better as an international format.
- groby_b 7y agoISO8601. Breathe it, live it, be it. That's yyyy-mm-dd. yyyy/mm/dd is ambiguous because the slash-separator is shared across all conflicting formats. Dashes are pretty much always ISO compliant formats. (Yes, it's a small difference, but it helps)
- danso 7y agoI agree, and I have to restrain myself not to use YYYY-MM-DD when signing official U.S. government forms. That said, I understand why year-first dates are cumbersome from an everyday perspective, especially in contexts where only day/month is needed.
- iso1631 7y agoso you're confused by lowest-endian, but not by middle-endian?