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It's a free-form text field; there's a very good chance it was an absentminded choice (it's probably how I'd write it, as an American, if I wasn't thinking too
by woodruffw 4y ago
It's a free-form text field; there's a very good chance it was an absentminded choice (it's probably how I'd write it, as an American, if I wasn't thinking too hard).
The good news is that GitHub Advisories are publicly editable, so you can always suggest an update to this one.
- TillE 4y agoI'm always a little surprised when computery people don't naturally default to YYYY-MM-DD (except when you're filling out paper forms or something). It's unambiguous and always sorts correctly, and doesn't contain any awkward characters. Objectively the best date format.
- macintux 4y agoI was very annoyed when I worked for a global company that used DD-Mon-YYYY, like 01-Apr-2020. Moaned and groaned about how they chose a non-standard format instead of an ISO standard. Of course, I later found out that is a standard format, and I suppose it's easier on non-technical people even if it stinks as a computer guy. Egg on my face.
- bee_rider 4y agoIt is sort of weird that dates aren’t universally parsed user-side according to localization settings, here in year 2768.
- ipaddr 4y agoCompletely agree. yyyy-mm-dd works for sorting, reading and superseeding existing formats.