Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  MM/DD/YYYY genuinely causes issues, because it’s very easily misread by the rest of the world, and vise versa for Americans.

  I have been mislead more than once, because the MM and DD are both ≤ 12.

  MM/DD/YYYY needs to die

  Month Day YYYY is fine, because it’s unambiguous when the month is spelled out.

  YYYY.MM.DD, or similar, is the only way to sort dates properly anyway.

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t actually disagree with anything you said, I was just being a bit cheeky

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Happy not allowed! There can only be one correct date format!

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• RyanLiu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s all fun and games until someone drops a 7/4 and you don’t know which country they’re from

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  • tuhriel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I usually go for if it has a / its probably US date formate…

    We use dots in our Locale

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      RIP Australia and our DD/MM/YYYY (and rest of the former British Empire I assume).

      Drives me nuts when software doesn’t properly localise.

      Looking at you, Excel for web which defaults to MM/DD/YYYY for some reason, even though the desktop app has no issues…

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Context clues are enough for me, 4/7 times

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I only deal with people from one country, but I always write out the month so there’s no confusion in important messages. Even including the day of the week as a type of verification.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    November 9 never forget.

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