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Not only this is common all around the world but it is also "ordered" correctly. dd/mm/yyyy (smallest, middle, largest) makes a lot more sense than mm/dd/yyyy (
by omeid2 12y ago
Not only this is common all around the world but it is also "ordered" correctly. dd/mm/yyyy (smallest, middle, largest) makes a lot more sense than mm/dd/yyyy (middle, smallest, largest).
- onion2k 12y agoNote the example didn't use dd/mm/yyyy. It used dd-mm-yyyy. Generally you can assume that a dash delimited date will be in European format while a slash delimited date will be American. The problems arise when British (and former British colonies) are added to the mix, because we use the European format with slashes. The only truly unambiguous format is yyyymmdd.
- lukasm 12y agoNot sure how yyyymmdd is unambiguous. 10111012 do you mean 10th Nov 1012 or 1011 Oct 12th
- onion2k 12y agoHow old are the people using this CV format?! For any date that would appear on in someone's work history yyyymmdd is not ambiguous, but if you're being really strict then a delimiter would fix the problem.
- bobmagoo 12y agoIt really doesn't though. Think about the sorting use case: Say you've got a bunch of files on your system with the date as the first part of the filename, what is more meaningful, sorting by year (2015-01-19_file), or by the date (19-01-2015_file). Clearly, sorting by year the files were created is more meaningful than sorting by the day of the month the files were created. Edit: I completely misread your comment as saying that smallest to largest is more useful than largest to smallest, rather than the weird month-day-year thing we use in America. Completely agree an ordering by specificity is more useful, but going from least to most specificity makes it much easier to order things in a useful way.
- nsgi 12y agoyyyy/mm/dd is ordered even more correctly. With dd/mm/yyyy the most significant digit is the 5th of eight and the least is the 2nd.