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[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 76 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

People don't get upset about saying the date in whatever format. They get upset when you write it in that format without specifying, so that you don't know if 07/04/1776 is July 4th or April 7th.

[-] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 24 points 11 months ago

I love it when someone sends me a message like this:

Hey there! What are you doing on 4/5?

????

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

What's especially bad is things that are meant for an international audience. Like the 2023 Miami Formula 1 race was held the weekend of the 5th to the 7th of May. But, say you didn't know that and you see that the date is specified as: 05/07/2023. Is that a race in May or July? It's Formula 1 so the audience is probably mostly European so the European order makes sense. But, it's a race in the USA so the US order makes sense.

It really sucks when to decode a date and time you have to first figure out who the target audience for the information is, then use that to help decode the information.