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.
RyanLiu@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It’s all fun and games until someone drops a 7/4 and you don’t know which country they’re from
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
November 9 never forget.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Context clues are enough for me, 4/7 times
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 days 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.
tuhriel@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
I usually go for if it has a / its probably US date formate…
We use dots in our Locale
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 5 days 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…