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Hard disagree. The separator choice implies different ordering to me and to many others.
by bryanlarsen 2y ago
Hard 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.