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Ah yes, ye old m/d/y - d/m/y debate. One is clearly wrong but the Americans won’t listen…
by shreddit 2y ago
Ah yes, ye old m/d/y - d/m/y debate. One is clearly wrong but the Americans won’t listen…
- Arch-TK 2y agoBoth are wrong, one is wrong-er. y-m-d h:m:s all the way.
- dowager_dan99 2y agopreach!
- SoftTalker 2y agoOracle's 'DD-MON-YYYY' (e.g. 06-DEC-2024) default date format always annoyed me but I have to admit it's unambiguous.
- ikekkdcjkfke 2y ago1733443200 is even more unambigous. Or is it? The date format measures how many sun-ups so it is more accurate even if time-dilation. So date format is actually just a sun position measure? Maybe we could just have a sun-ups since 1970 ticker. Edit: and i guess why have leap seconds and stuff is because we are rrying to combine both sun position and elapsed seconds idk
- 05 2y agoAttoseconds since the Big Bang is the only datetime system worth a damn.
- lucb1e 2y agoThat number could be anything, such as a user ID. Even among timestamp libraries that work with January 1st 1970 UTC as the zero point, they might parse it as January 21st 1970 if they were expecting milliseconds rather than seconds. It doesn't get much more ambiguous than a plain number!
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- HideousKojima 2y agoWhile it's confusing and I prefer y-m-d over both of those, the American way is based on the way dates are said in spoken (American) English. Hence things like September 11th, 2001
- toxican 2y agoKind of feel like maybe any other date would've been a more appropriate example, but I get it. 9/11's just one of those things you can never forget.
- sk5t 2y agoOP’s backup choice is December 7, 1941.
- toxican 2y agoI'm beginning to harbor resentment
- XCabbage 2y agoIt's the most appropriate possible example here because for many non-American readers it will be the one date that they have heard spoken in American English enough times to recall how Americans say it. For people who don't have much connection to American culture, it may well be the ONLY date they have ever heard spoken the American way in their lives. (Indeed, this one specific date gets said the American way even in British English. We Brits don't do that for any other dates - we say "fourth of July" instead of "July fourth", for instance - but "September 11th" aka "9/11", uniquely among all dates, is written and said the American way in all dialects of English on the planet due to its significance to American culture.)
- RedNifre 2y agoWhy do they say "4th of July" then?
- okanat 2y ago
- hansvm 2y ago[flagged]