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What have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] prettygorgeous@aussie.zone 78 points 5 days ago (5 children)

MM/dd/yyyy date format by default on software

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 40 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Worst format ever. It should either be dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

yyyy/mm/dd

YYYY-MM-DD

Standard is for dashes in ISO8601.

[–] Oberyn@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

- >>>>>>>>>> / . Fite me

[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

The worst?? Try mm/yy/dd, and you'll regret everything in your life. Another β€œgreat” one is yyyy-dd-mm; it'll infuriate anyone using the ISO standard.

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 25 points 5 days ago

Okay now that IS the worst, good point

[–] prettygorgeous@aussie.zone 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Omg who uses that?

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

No one who survived the attempt to require others to use it.

[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Me, for a future April Fools release in one of my projects.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

What fresh evil is this?

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

MM/YY/DDD (Ordinal date)

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

ISO-8601. Accept no compromise.

[–] Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

this is just the USA, not the whole west

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago

Goodness gracious, it gives me an aneurysm every time I set up a new computer with the en_US locale or have to fill out forms with that date format.

[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 days ago

This is just the madlads in the US