Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• easily3667@lemmus.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m so glad you think we are all computers

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Our lives involve computers to a huge degree.

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• Osan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In Arabic we use DD/MM/YYYY but it actually gets written as YYYY/MM/DD since Arabic is written and read from right to left. When the year is dropped the confusing part is not what format is used here but rather does this website/software support RTL or is it just regular unformatted ASCII.

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  • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Should work if you have an RTL invert character before, right? (Not that you could name files with the slashes.)

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    • Osan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      RTL invert characters are just for rendering purposes it doesn’t help with sorting also in older systems sometimes it was not supported.

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      • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But if you type it as “[RTL invert]yyyy/mm/dd” it is automatically sorted correctly in ltr parsing systems but still displayed correctly (assuming it is supported which it seems to be on most devices nowadays).

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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hungarian is close enough

  YYYY.MM.DD

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  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ♥️ this is what I decide to use at work. Dots are superior than dashes in my opinion because they prevent line breaks

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    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I like dashes because they work better than dots or slashes for file names.

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      • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How so? At least dots haven’t prevented me in the past (windows, Mac, android, various cloud storage).

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  • tatann@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can be OK with that

    But not with having elected the Trump of EU

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bro, trump is learning from Orbán if anything Trump is the US Orbán, fuck both of them too

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• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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 ;)

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