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*22/2/22

• adamomada 5y ago
  You know how the date looked strange to you? It’s the same for your correction, but for other people
  • orf 5y ago
    For a statistically insignificant portion of people, sure. It doesn’t make it any less correct.
    • 4ggr0 5y ago
      For the whole of Europe it would be 22.02.2022, how is all of Europe statistically insignificant?
      • orf 5y ago
        The official EU rules say 22.02.2022, but nobody in Europe would have trouble parsing 22/2/22 or any variation thereof. And the / (or -) separator is indeed used in parts of the EU. It’s the ordering that’s significant, not the separator.
        • Symbiote 5y ago
          The separator is often a good clue. Dots and dashes strongly imply d-m-y, slashes imply an English date, which might be m/d/y if it is from North America. A mixture is even more likely to be d-m-y, today is 27/4-2022 in Danish handwriting.
          • 4ggr0 5y ago
            > 27/4-2022 in Danish handwriting I've never seen a date written like this, interesting.
        • 4ggr0 5y ago
          > nobody in Europe would have trouble Yeah, I guess if people look at it and parse it, they understand it. But what I notice is, that the IT-bubble I am in has no worries parsing these dates because we use them a lot in IT, even in Europe. But people outside of IT do seem confused about US-formatted dates from time to time, because they rarely encounter them. More than once did I notice someone struggling to fill in their birthday into an online form because the people making the form decided to use M/D/Y instead of D.M.Y Of course most can help themselves, but its not like these date formats seem natural or normal to everyone in Europe.