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The argument is that writing the parts in a consistently increasing or decreasing precision order makes more sense. So these are good. - year / month / day -
by sephlietz 3y ago
The argument is that writing the parts in a consistently increasing or decreasing precision order makes more sense.
So these are good.
- year / month / day
- day / month / year
And this is bad.
- month / day / year
- dabluecaboose 3y agoWhile I am a strong supporter of ISO8601 (e.g. 2023-07-12) there is an argument that decreasing specificity is preferable (as in ISO8601) and that for most day-to-day usage the year is somewhat implicit, hence being at the end. Personally, I write the month out if I'm not using 8601 formatting to avoid any ambiguity. For any sort of recordkeeping, though, I think it's preferable to go full on YYYY-MM-DD. It's more thorough, precise, and sorts properly on a computer.
- wingspar 3y agoOutside the US, how is a month+day combination written out/spoken? "May 3" / "May 3rd" or "3 May" ?
- manuelmoreale 3y ago3 May in Italy. It’s always day first. You never hear anyone saying or writing the month first.
- wizofaus 3y agoIn most contexts I would never use the cardinal number "3", it'd always be "the 3rd of May" or "May (the) 3rd", but in a country like Australia (with a high number of speakers from different cultural backgrounds) you hear all sorts of conventions used in casual conversation.
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- kiicia 3y ago“3rd of may”
- jklinger410 3y agoI don't think "it makes more sense" is exactly describing the reasoning.
- sephlietz 3y agoNeither do I, but the rest of what I wrote does.