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It's an American company, so they used the American date format. Only the middle date is ambiguous anyway.
by sbierwagen 4y ago
It's an American company, so they used the American date format.
Only the middle date is ambiguous anyway.
- Gigachad 4y agoGoogle is a global company and this is a message targeting VS code users who are global as well.
- daemoens 4y agoGood luck getting people to change the way they write dates, no matter how terrible it is.
- runlevel1 4y agoISO 8601 is pretty common amongst the engineers I've worked with. Odds are they didn't grow up with it unless they're from China or a handful of other countries that primarily use YYYYMMDD.
- weberer 4y agoIf you give people a good reason, they'll actually care. "Use YYYY-MM-DD as it allows us to sort by date in the filesystem" is a great reason. On the other hand, bickering about DD-MM-YYYY vs MM-DD-YYYY because "that's how it is in my country" just makes me roll my eyes.
- cowmoo728 4y agoI work at google and frequently collaborate with people from Germany, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and the US. I always use YYYY-MM-DD in docs and emails to make sure everyone understands. It's still somewhat common to see mixups between the Americans and everyone else around MM/DD and DD/MM though.
- nonethewiser 4y agoWell they are definitely American. Their reach is global, sure. That makes the rest of the world subject to their Americanness.
- chadlavi 4y agoI work at an American company and we use a reasonable date format in technical writing anyway. It's not really an excuse.
- gregmac 4y ago"This date format works for almost 61% of the year" isn't a great selling point.
- dangond 4y agoThis date format works for just as much of the year as DD/MM/YYYY though, and is just as ambiguous as the other format is if you don't know who the author is.
- 3np 4y agoSure. Which is why a non-ambiguous format would be preferred, like the ISO standard YYYY-MM-DD.
- thewataccount 4y agoWhich is also nice and sortable
- andreareina 4y agoWhich is why if I have to write a date in non-big-endian order I try to spell the month out, e.g. 07 Dec 2022
- sebazzz 4y agoThe DD-MM-YYYY format is often used with dashes instead of slashes.
- paulmooreparks 4y agoI work with lots of geographically dispersed and culturally diverse teams. The rule I always enforce is to spell (or abbreviate) the month in all dates. The other numbers tend to work themselves out.