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It's more about the order DD MM YYYY than the separators.
by hu3 2y ago
It's more about the order DD MM YYYY than the separators.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoHard disagree. The separator choice implies different ordering to me and to many others.
- OJFord 2y agoOk what's 2/8/24 in words?
- lamontcg 2y ago2nd of August, 2024 or Feb 8th, 2024.
- OJFord 2y agoExactly. Choice of the separator '/' doesn't disambiguate.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoIt does in my jurisdiction. 2/8/24 is usually m/d/y, 2-8-24 is usually d-m-y, 2024-2-8 is always y-m-d.
- OJFord 2y ago> It does in my jurisdiction. 2/8/24 is usually m/d/y, 2-8-24 is usually d-m-y Where is that? I would guess this is more like 'most people use /' and 'most people where I am use month first'; therefore those using - separation are weirdo Europeans/rest of world putting the day first.
- manuel_w 2y agoFebruary 8th, 2024 a.k.a. 2024-02-08 a.k.a. 08.02.2024.
- OJFord 2y agoIn your country maybe, and it narrows it down to approximately one.
- hu3 2y agotwo slash eight slash twenty four
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y agoI never knew that, actually. I developed a habit of writing my dates with dashes instead of slashes because I thought the latter looked too much like the number 1. Makes me wonder how many people I've confused after they read paperwork I dated. I currently do ISO order with forward-slash as a separator, which might be similarly confusing.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoThere are systems out there that do YYYY/DD/MM. AFAICT YYYY-DD-MM is only used by evil pranksters, so a date that starts with a 4 digit number and uses dashes is relatively safely assumed as YYYY-MM-DD.
- Repulsion9513 2y agoThe order is common throughout much of the world. The separators (especially with that order) are not.