The world could also agree to adopt the format used by most, which is YYYY/MM/DD; or the second most used one (DD/MM/YYYY) so that I won’t ever have to look at the american version ever again!

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I believe it is YYYY-MM-DD actually.

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I am not willing, not willing to biologically compute the distinction you imagine between ‘/‘ and ‘-‘ in this context…

[–] MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Many countries use the dd/mm/yyyy format tho? Germany, Uk, Spain…

[–] MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

They do, I'm just pointing to an ISO standard which most use...

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm pretty sure the opposite is true, someone has implemented a date entry to be always different than the default in user's region

Microsoft is even worse, they do some places on region default, some places mm-dd-yyyy and some rare places in yyyy-mm-dd. I remember the worst example being powershell module for exchange server and message trace log. It'd output your region's default, but accept as input only mm-dd-yyyy

[–] subignition@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago

It shouldn't be that hard to switch the ordering of the input fields based on information like that gleaned from the browser.