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This is a good thing though since this encourages more people to use the ISO date formats. They are unambiguous, easy to parse and sort correctly

• to3m 15y ago
  There are other uses of the slash character. It's a poor choice. _ or | get my vote, but it's a bit late now to fix the mistakes of the past. There are enough special chars needed anyway that collisions are inevitable. At least they didn't pick 'E'.
  • clhodapp 15y ago
    The problem with those characters is that they require you to hold shift to type them on a standard keyboard. Also, they make you reach in a way that / doesn't (now I'm showing my pro-/ bias).
    • pjmlp 15y ago
      On which standard keyboard? Each country has a different layout, are you aware of it? In most European countries both types of slash require two key presses.