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We're lucky enough that almost nobody is (yet) using yyyy-dd-mm, so fortunately ISO 8601 is still pretty unambiguous in the real world.
by tomjakubowski 3y ago
We're lucky enough that almost nobody is (yet) using yyyy-dd-mm, so fortunately ISO 8601 is still pretty unambiguous in the real world.
- nobrains 3y agoYes, but in the wild, lay people can easily assume yyyy-dd-mm. See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36699269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36699269
- tomjakubowski 3y agoMy claim is that almost nobody would jump to that interpretation because there is no pre-existing convention with year first and day and then month. I guess if you'd never seen an ISO date before, and you were accustomed to DD-MM-YYYY, then it could still be ambiguous. It's all context dependent anyhow—who's to say 2023-07-13 is a date and not an arithmetic expression, or a code in some filing system that happens to look like a date.