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What is your idea of perfect date? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by pooky55@lemm.ee to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

ISO-8601 / RFC-3339 is clearly superior, but at least DD/MM/YYYY has a rational ordering, unlike MM/DD/YYYY.

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dont know if it's true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

My guess is it’s because that’s the order in which we usually say dates in English: September twentieth, twenty-twenty-four.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

I, too, am an 8601 enthusiast. Stupid America means we need to go y-m-d for date ordering to not be ambiguous.