Submitted 3 weeks ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
It annoys me even though I’m still in the U.S.
I’m not from either place.
I was under the impression that a CV and a resume are different things. A CV is a general compilation of all things you’ve done, and a resume is a curated list used for applying to jobs.
I do know that they’re used interchangeably for the most part, but this is how I was explained the difference in practice.
No, they are the same thing.
They are not
Oh. Okay. So just different words? Like sidewalk & footpath?
They seem to be used interchangeably in the UK at the jobs I’m applying for, but what I have is definitely CV and not resume.
The date thing is infuriating because the American date format just shouldn’t exist
ISO is best. There’s no debate there. From a data science perspective, YYYY/MM/DD is the only reasonable choice.
But most of the time you’re using dates, you’re only concerned with the month and day. That’s the very reason we don’t use ISO in our daily lives. If you started every mention of a date with the year, people would think you’re a crazy person, or a time traveler, or perhaps a recently-awakened coma patient. There’s just no need to begin with the year. Next Wednesday, 2024 December 18.
If you exclude the year, then the choice is month/day or day/month. Between the two, month/day is far more useful for the same reasons ISO is best. If I need both the month and the day, then I want the month first. The only time I would want the day first is if the month doesn’t matter, and I can omit the month in that case. Giving me the day first and then the month forces me to wait for the month and then remember the day. It’s inefficient transfer of information. If you exclude the year, MM/DD is objectively, if only marginally, better than DD/MM.
But then why would anyone use MM/DD/(YY)YY? Because we’re already using MM/DD.
Ahem - there is a debate… it’s over / vs. -. As is proper - all true debates should be over minor formatting decisions (soft tabs over my fucking dead body).
I’ll see you on the 1st of the 1st.
I see nothing wrong with that. The day number moves most frequently, so that should go first. The month moves second most frequently, so that should go second. Putting the month first makes it odd.
The dates are written to match how it’s said. In the US we say our dates as month day year, and before you say “But the 4th of July” my counterpoint is that the 4th of July takes place on July 4th. And Cinco de Mayo takes place on May 5th. And May the Fourth Be With You takes place on May 4th.
MM/DD/YYYY would annoy me wherever it’s from, because it’s wilfully perverse.
It’s from the country that elected a pervert, so…
They’re similar, but used for different purposes. According to UC Davis (University of California), these are the differences
“CV” is definitely not only used for academic positions in the UK. They almost always say CV instead of resume. That’s much less common than the date format.
Without going into the rabbit hole of explaining:
Curriculum Vitae: all your education, training, experience, skills. Can be multiple pages. Resume: the highlights + relevant for the application. Preferred on one page. Resume goes on top of the CV.
I am from Europe. About the dates, for me it depends.
In personal things, I generally use the American date format because I got used to it. And when going through a list of things month first is often nicer to look at.
When giving something to someone else, I use date compatible with RFC3339 and ISO8601 standards (YYYY-MM-DD).
Quick comparison between the two: ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
But people have questioned me about both, since DD. MM. [YY]YY is basically the only format used in my country, but I don’t like it.
It’s the same shit as the kids saying “candy” instead of sweets in the UK, and getting british accents from Peppa Pig in the US.
The date stuff is super stupid though :
Fuck the US date scheme
You don’t need fucking day numbers for anything on your CV, except your DOB.
7th Jan 2007 . You’re welcome, now it doesn’t really matter which order you put the DD/MM
Im british and yes that annoys me.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
The only correct format is from greatest to smallest: yyyy-mm-dd
This is, in my mind, verifiable by noting the way that lists are ordered when using this format. They are sequential. This isn’t true for either of the other formats.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
As a programmer I agree. I have fucked around with trying to parse unrestricted user inputs of dates and I have found out.
Year first is the only way I can actually know which value is day vs. month.
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s great for lists but I don’t know a single person who’s gonna say “hey let’s meet up on 2024 December 11th.”
tate@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Dates written in a numbers only format are not about matching the spoken language. You also would not say, “let’s meet on twelve eleven twenty twentyfour.”
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You must not know many programmers that have had to deal with American date formatting then.