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Is it me or are all the dates in this timeline in the future? Isn’t it Feb 2025 now? Do you smell toast? EDIT: oh I see .. DD/MM/YY is a new one to me
by doctorhandshake 2y ago
Is it me or are all the dates in this timeline in the future? Isn’t it Feb 2025 now? Do you smell toast?
EDIT: oh I see .. DD/MM/YY is a new one to me
- gilbertbw 2y agoThat’s the date format used in the UK
- aimazon 2y agoSmall correction: that's the date format used by most every country except the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_countr...
- blueflow 2y agoWhy is it always americans who are caught with being seemingly unaware of the rest of the world? Is it because we all speak their language? I didn't ever see it with Britons or Australians.
- mattlondon 2y agoDate format used everywhere apart from US.
- eru 2y agoNot everywhere. In Asia you find a lot of YYYY-MM-DD and similar.
- eru 2y agoAnd in eg Germany, too.
- sd9 2y agoMM/DD/YY is an exclusively American standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_countr... I have no idea why America settled on MM/DD/YY, which seems like absolutely the least intuitive permutation of D, M, and Y. Except perhaps MYD.
- pcthrowaway 2y agoCanada uses this also, though we also use day-month-year and year-month-day. Yes, this effectively makes dates nearly impossible to decipher here.
- iinnPP 2y agoI have always dated things with months spelled for this reason. Except where the format is clearly defined, which is fairly common and likely for the same reason.
- GuB-42 2y agoIt seems like it comes from an british convention of spelling dates "February 12, 2025" instead of the now more common "The 12th of February, 2025". Like US customary units, imported from the british, but the UK modernized its system, not the US.
- SigmundA 2y agoTo me its sounds better and more correct to say: February 12th, 2025 Rather than: 12 February 2025 And is easier to say than: The 12th of February 2025 So it's always been natural to write the numeric form the same way, but I am American. I can appreciate day first being easier to sort by machines and having an agreed upon international standard.
- mdiesel 2y agoJust like the 4th of July, that most American of days
- mattlondon 2y agoDay-Month-Year is the standard everywhere in the world apart from the US. Big and little endian dates are the only way that makes sense I think. Doing it the US way where day is inexplicably between year and month just feels corrupted to my mind.
- cesarb 2y ago> Day-Month-Year is the standard everywhere in the world apart from the US. IIRC, Japan uses Year-Month-Day, which is the other order which makes sense.
- duohedron 2y agoNot standard in China, Japan, Hungary, Mongolia, South Korea, Taiwan, and of course ISO 8601.
- ant6n 2y ago> Day-Month-Year is the standard everywhere in the world apart from the US Nope, the standards are day.month.year, year-month-day, or month/day/year. The problem happens when the delimiter doesn't match the ordering.
- andy81 2y agoExactly the reason that you should always use yyyy-mm-dd.
- thomassmith65 2y agoyyyy-mm-dd is the most sensible, yes. For one thing, it sorts properly.
- hennell 2y agoDMY is the most common format internationally. There's a growing move (and ISO standard) for YMD but its a slow change, I think it's only North America that uses MDY.
- riffic 2y agoISO 8601 was set in 1988: https://xkcd.com/1179/ https://xkcd.com/1179/