Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates
Osan@lemmy.world 1 week agoIn 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.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Should work if you have an RTL invert character before, right? (Not that you could name files with the slashes.)
Osan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
RTL invert characters are just for rendering purposes it doesn’t help with sorting also in older systems sometimes it was not supported.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 week 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).
Osan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You want it displayed as “yyyy/mm/dd” so it’s actually “[RTL]dd/mm/yyyy”