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??/??/YYYY is ambiguous because ~3 billion people use DD/MM/YYYY whereas the US uses MM/DD/YYYY. Nobody (or very few) uses YYYY-DD-MM, so YYYY-MM-DD won't be co
by Ukv 3y ago
??/??/YYYY is ambiguous because ~3 billion people use DD/MM/YYYY whereas the US uses MM/DD/YYYY. Nobody (or very few) uses YYYY-DD-MM, so YYYY-MM-DD won't be confused with it.
Could say that there's still a small amount of ambiguity, but it's definitely not "as ambiguous as" ??/??/YYYY.
> unless you’re a tech persona with precursor knowledge of date formats
YYYY-MM-DD is the standard for billions of people. You don't need to be a tech persona to either use it or to understand the reasons for it (lack of ambiguity, consistency with other numbers).
- fatfingerd 3y agoUsing duodecimal for the month will clear that remaining confusion right up, YYYY-M-DD.
- sshine 3y agoUnicode has you covered! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal So M is one of {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ↊, ↋}. U+218A ↊ TURNED DIGIT TWO U+218B ↋ TURNED DIGIT THREE There are other contenders for the 11th and 12th symbol, but all of those systems seem to assume counting from 0, which is... not a very fortunate choice: Human calendars generally numerate the first month as "1", not "0". So duodecimal does not get my vote for less ambiguity on either the account of determining what symbols to use, or where to start the sequence. :-)