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Agreed - really wish more people would use ISO date format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
by mhandley 6y ago
Agreed - really wish more people would use ISO date format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
- drivers99 6y agoThere’s a subreddit for that too. https://old.reddit.com/r/ISO8601/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ISO8601/
- smiley1437 6y agoThere’s also an xkcd for that https://xkcd.com/1179/ https://xkcd.com/1179/ (Because there’s an xkcd for pretty much everything)
- mark-r 6y agoI LOVE the hover text on that one.
- karatestomp 6y agoI think formats with month and day before year are popular (and possibly emerged originally) for cases in which the year's only really included in case you're not sure whether you're reading something old and the date's already passed, that is, the date is referring to something 12 months or less away, which is probably a very high percentage of dates people encounter day-to-day. This puts the most useful information up front. The alternative being dates that omit the year entirely, which are also very common.