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Coming from China, western date and time formats puzzle me. In China we use the ISO 8601 order for dates. Because of this, and also for all the reasons stated i
by FooBarWidget 6y ago
Coming from China, western date and time formats puzzle me. In China we use the ISO 8601 order for dates. Because of this, and also for all the reasons stated in the article, I use the ISO 8601 format in all my software. As a user, it really bugs me when an app uses either the European or the US format, but doesn't tell me which one it is.
- nayuki 6y agoChina's date format isn't as good as ISO 8601. Let's ignore the 3 Chinese characters (年月日) for a moment. The problem is that the Chinese format does not use leading zero padding - e.g. 2021年5月8日 - which makes the format variable-length and much harder to sort.