I'm an American and do day/month/year.
I thought this was how it was done everywhere?
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So the holiday that's coming up in a week... Is it 4/20, or 20/4?
4/20 blaze it.
Why is the format not:
2025/4/12
Biggest time frame to smallest time frame (year, month, then day)?
As a computer scientist, I've been doing this everywhere for over 10 years already. Be the change you want to see in the world.
In my computer engineering course this is literally how we were told to write the date on our lab reports.
my guess is order of relevance.
2025/4/12
Don't forget leading zeroes, we're not half assing this!
02025/04/012
Issues with unix paths. I prefer 2025-04-12.
2009, got it
This is the way.
ISO8601 FTW!
Canada’s just like you have to guess
With the way things are going over there, the whole thing falls apart soon enough and this issue can be fixed in the rebuild.
Both are wrong. The correct way to write the date is YYYY-MM-DD. This is the only way to sort dates linearly in a list. ISO 8601.
It's frustrating that people are so bad at dates that ISO8601 lives rent-free in my head because I constantly have to tell people ;)
Hungarian is close enough
YYYY.MM.DD
I can be OK with that
But not with having elected the Trump of EU
Bro, trump is learning from Orbán if anything Trump is the US Orbán, fuck both of them too
Why can't we just call it Independence Day, that's what it's actually called
Sorry, that's copyrighted.
None of this dumb shits going to matter when the meteor sephiroth summoned blows the earth up
Of course it will still matter. You'll need a calendar just to time out the animation for that spell it's so fucking long.
What Americans are calling people idiots for saying (day) of (month)? We say it both ways all the time. 4th of July, July 4th... it's not a complicated thing.
That is a weird one: every other date is “normal” order but for some reason this is an exception. Also weird that we call it with backward date more often than its actual holiday name
- July 4 is a normal date
- Independency Day is the name of the holiday
- so why do we usually refer to it as “Fourth of July”
We don’t say July 4 because that’s a normal date, we don’t say Independence Day because there are so many of those on different days for different countries.
It’s like saying USAians don’t have a sense of humour. Some USAians are MAGAt knob heads, some are perfectly reasonable people. More or less like anywhere else.
As someone from a yyyy-mm-dd country, you're all wrong /hj
yyyy-mm-dd is specified by ISO 8601, so there's really no argument it isn't the objectively correct format.
There's also RFC3339, which is freely available and compatible with the most common ISO8501 profile.
What about RFC 9557, which is an update to RFC 3339?
I had not heard of that one, thanks! Looks like a good extension.
It's the only correct way to save file names
I always use yyyy.mm.dd as my date format whenever I sign and date documents. I also use a pictograph instead of initials. Someone tried to forge a contract edit to try and get out of paying but used the mm/dd/yy format. The moment my lawyer showed this to their lawyer, they settled immediately for the original amount, legal fees, and late payment penalties. Dumbasses.
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And what is that country? Unixopia? Linukstadt? Databaseo?
Lithuania if you want the serious answer :3.. china, japan, both koreas, taiwan, bhutan, mongolia and hungary also use it
But yes, im from linuxstan :3
How is it living in a theocracy worshipping our lord and savior Richard Stallman?
"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels."
Anyway, the point of linking that page is that RMS is a saint, not a god.
Why can't Trump use unitary executive theory to do something good...like force everyone to use ISO 8601.
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Coldest take: if any common date format is difficult for you, you're a little bit ridiculous
It's all fun and games until someone drops a 7/4 and you don't know which country they're from
November 9 never forget.
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I like DD MON YYYY. Feels very grand and unambiguous, but people always look at me funny for using it.
I've been told I need to redo paperwork because I marked the date like 12APR2025.
I get standardization for computers, but for something a person is going to look at I feel like it's very direct, needs no explanation or interpretation. Anyone who sees it should be able to figure it out instantly.
There is very little room for interpretation even if you don't know the date format. That's BS.
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