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You could be Canada. MM-DD-YYYY? DD-MM-YYYY? Unless you're in Quebec, you never have a clue. Government officially recommends YYYY-MM-DD due to this, but in the
by lordgroff 5y ago
You could be Canada. MM-DD-YYYY? DD-MM-YYYY? Unless you're in Quebec, you never have a clue. Government officially recommends YYYY-MM-DD due to this, but in the real world it's wild west.
- majewsky 5y agoI'm a German in an international work environment. Since I'm also fed up with this endless confusion, I'm sneakily forcing YYYY-MM-DD on everyone by quietly editing every instance of a date that I find in the wild, and it's progressing rather well.
- geoduck14 5y agoOh you deviant, you! I'm inspired. Keep it up.
- pezezin 5y agoSpanish guy working in Japan in an international environment here. Little by little I'm forcing YYYY-MM-DD for file and directory names, and DD-Mon-YYYY as the display format for applications and for the documents I write. Time for a rant. I recently had to fix a web application where the guy who originally installed it set all the fields to free form text, and dates were a mix of: - D/M/Y: good, European order. - Y/M/D: also good, CJK order. - M/D/Y: who the hell did it, if we never had an American in the project???? - Years with two or four digits. Every time I see a date written with only two digits for the year, I want to kill the motherfucker who did it. - Months written as numbers, full names, or abbreviations. Well, at least nobody used Japanese era years, or Roman numerals for months, but any other combination you can think of was there. 600 records, took me several hours because the software is not exactly user friendly and I had to convert each date to its internal representation by hand. After that, I force every single web form to use date pickers for date fields. But of course text fields are still a mess, maybe I will adopt your approach too ;)