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If you’re living in Berlin, it didn’t matter what US date format was 20 years ago. You’re missing the point that the globe is far more connected due to the inte
by fermienrico 6y ago
If you’re living in Berlin, it didn’t matter what US date format was 20 years ago. You’re missing the point that the globe is far more connected due to the internet.
- JdeBP 6y agoNo, you are missing the point that the globe was connected due to the Internet for far more than 20 years, as evidenced at least by the fact that one of the more widely known treatises on ISO 8601 on the World Wide Web dates from the middle 1990s. And that's merely the World Wide Web, not the worldwide computer networks and communications systems, where dates have been an issue, that pre-date the WWW. The idea that this issue is new because the world only got connected in the 21st century is baloney. Doubly so: The world got connected so that people in other countries saw each other's conventional date formats long before, and people have been discussing date format ambiguities for far more than 20 years.