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From the D/M/Y date format at the end of the article, they may not be native English speakers (at least they aren’t American).
by SZJX 2y ago
From the D/M/Y date format at the end of the article, they may not be native English speakers (at least they aren’t American).
- turbonaut 2y agoEngland is just one example of a country of native English speakers who use dd/mm/yyyy.
- chrisweekly 2y agoyyyy-mm-dd is the iso standard, w/ the benefits of logical consistency (larger to smaller units left to right) and -- best of all -- sortability.
- TheSpiceIsLife 2y agoBig-endian https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
- anilakar 2y agoIn any case there are two sane ways to write dates, and the middle-endian format is not one of them.
- genewitch 2y agoThe other is the US military one 14FEB2025,yes? That and ISO are all we need.
- anilakar 2y agoThat military style uses little endian so it belongs in the sane formats category. However, with ISO you're likely referring to RFC3339. The full ISO8601 standard allows insane date representations you're not going to see anywhere but the documentation that explains them.
- Wowfunhappy 2y agoThe only problem is that it puts the most important information last and the least important first (going by "what do I most likely need to see and cannot infer from context", ie I likely already know the year and possibly the month).
- unification_fan 2y agoWho cares? How much time are you going to lose from that? Like, 0.15s every time you read a date. Big woop.
- Wowfunhappy 2y agoIt has been a problem for me when the last part gets truncated (e.g. with an ellipses).
- selcuka 2y agoAustralia, too.
- defrost 2y agoThe USofA is the bizarre exception here: The United States has a rather unique way of writing the date that is imitated in very few other countries (although Canada and Belize do also use the form). In America, the date is formally written in month/day/year form. They don't use metric, still use First Past the Post voting, elect a mini monarch with effectively unchecked powers, ... it's an odd place.
- OhMeadhbh 2y agoDon't oversell the place. It also has it's down-sides.
- kinematicgps99 2y agoMass shootings, out-of-control police, bankruptcies from for-profit healthcare and expensive medications, Bibles and Creationism in public schools, widespread ignorance about the world and just about everything, and millions (vastly undercounted) of homeless people. But seriously, America is awesome for rich people if you don't mind living in a poor, third-world country that still believes it's a first-world, exceptional country.
- nixass 2y agoAnd?