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Spot on: I came here to make this comment about ISO 8601 vs. RFC 3339 and point-out that "European format" is a generalisation, not a rule: Lithuania [1] and Sw
by guiraldelli 6y ago
Spot on: I came here to make this comment about ISO 8601 vs. RFC 3339 and point-out that "European format" is a generalisation, not a rule: Lithuania [1] and Sweden use the ISO 8601 for date representation, and Portugal and Spain uses dd/mm/yyyy.
I must say I just saw the dd.mm.yyyy used in Italy, but it seems that a few other countries also use it.
(And EU requires dd/mm/yyyy in "best before" dates.)
Besides this nitpicking, I agree with the author for several years already.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
- tom_mellior 6y ago> (And EU requires dd/mm/yyyy in "best before" dates.) This sounded intriguing, so I checked my fridge, and this doesn't seem to be strictly true. Everything I found used . rather than / as the separator, as is usual here (Austria). But also, some years were YY only. And the eggs are just plain weird: Both the carton and the stamp on the eggs list DD.MM. while the graphic explaining the date stamp uses a DD.MM.YYYY example date.