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Alien: so how do you write the date? year-month-day? "nope, there are several variations but most popular are monthnumber-day-year and day-monthnumber-year. Fo

Alien: so how do you write the date? year-month-day? "nope, there are several variations but most popular are monthnumber-day-year and day-monthnumber-year. For example - 6-6-2022 "oh so you do use numbers for months." "yeah sometimes" "so in your example how do you know which one is day and which one is the month" "depends upon which part of the earth you are standing on"

davchana 4y ago
& even in the same part aka USA, in day to day life & on state issued paperwork, ids, social security card, its 6-7-22 m-d-yy is June 7th, but on passport its dd MMM YYYY `07 JUN 2022`. Immigration documents issued by USCIS uses 06072022 mmddyyyy as June 07, 2022. So, not always the same sequence on same part of the earth.
- genewitch 4y ago
  This is far and away the most glaringly not-ok cultural thing we have leftover. I know there's an actual ISO for dates, but even if there weren't, if you use, oh, a file system, a spreadsheet, or even a filing cabinet, having the year, then the month, then the day, then the hour, minute, second, and so on makes everything sort correctly. We've been using computers for more than a generation at this point. I get stressed any time i have to parse dates not in this format, usually for old emails, news articles, etc. I think a huge sticking point is how most people write checks, Jun 6, 2022. Also the US postal system screws up the ordering in a way similar to writing things Jun 6, 2022. first the street number, then street, then subdivision (the building/apartment/department,) then city, then state. Then a zip code (which has the potential to be smaller than the street number, or larger than a city.