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You can just use ISO 8601, YYYY-MM-DD, then you can be international standards compliant as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.m.wikiped
by Veserv 3y ago
You can just use ISO 8601, YYYY-MM-DD, then you can be international standards compliant as well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
- sverhagen 3y agoI have a hard time getting that past non-technical users (in the US). People that don't think like an engineer. Even though we're right! Of course!
- readthenotes1 3y agoPlus, it sorts naturally. Starting with the day or the month is Ludacris.
- rekoil 3y agoDay I can accept, even if I dislike it. Starting with the month will always make me angry. It just has no logic to it.
- alanbernstein 3y agoSure it does. It's the shortest way to specify a date within a period of a year surrounding the current day... Which means it's a date format that should only ever be spoken, not committed to written record.
- actionfromafar 3y agoMonth first is not even syntactically correct, even in spoken form, in some languages.
- jankremer 3y agoI think everyone should use ISO 8601. And if you are using something else, especially if it’s something like XX-XX-XX, specify what you mean by that!
- account42 3y agoI prefer RFC3339, specifically: > NOTE: ISO 8601 defines date and time separated by "T". Applications using this syntax may choose, for the sake of readability, to specify a full-date and full-time separated by (say) a space character.