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Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

The only correct format is from greatest to smallest: yyyy-mm-dd

This is, in my mind, verifiable by noting the way that lists are ordered when using this format. They are sequential. This isn’t true for either of the other formats.

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xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
As a programmer I agree. I have fucked around with trying to parse unrestricted user inputs of dates and I have found out.

Year first is the only way I can actually know which value is day vs. month.

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blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It’s great for lists but I don’t know a single person who’s gonna say “hey let’s meet up on 2024 December 11th.”

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- tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Dates written in a numbers only format are not about matching the spoken language. You also would not say, “let’s meet on twelve eleven twenty twentyfour.”
  
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- xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You must not know many programmers that have had to deal with American date formatting then.
  
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  - blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I used to be a programmer myself and it’s why there’s a specific default data structure built in to most programming languages to handle dates and internationalization of those dates.
    
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