Happy not allowed! There can only be one correct date format!
Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Coldest take: if any common date format is difficult for you, you’re a little bit ridiculous
henfredemars@infosec.pub 11 months ago
RyanLiu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s all fun and games until someone drops a 7/4 and you don’t know which country they’re from
tuhriel@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I usually go for if it has a / its probably US date formate…
We use dots in our Locale
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 11 months 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…
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Context clues are enough for me, 4/7 times
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
November 9 never forget.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t actually disagree with anything you said, I was just being a bit cheeky