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Does anyone have any thoughts on date formats? E.g. d/m/y vs. m/d/y?
by anf0 5y ago
Does anyone have any thoughts on date formats? E.g. d/m/y vs. m/d/y?
- red_trumpet 5y agoJust use d/m/y as the rest of the world.
- riffic 5y agono: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1179:_ISO_8601 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1179:_ISO_8601
- posedge 5y agoThe only true format is the programmer's yyyy-mm-dd :)
- Akronymus 5y ago8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 which can be any of these: YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM YYYYMMDD
- aendruk 5y agoISO 8601 is proprietary and people can’t even read it without each paying a $170 access fee. Instead, prefer IETF RFC 3339 (mentioned in your link) which is a more practical open standard.
- dcminter 5y agoIn prose, use month names (i.e. 1st Jan 1979, or Jan 1st 1970). Where numbers must be used for some reason use four-digit-year first if you can. If you can't use the dictated standard or, if there isn't one (raising the obvious question of why that would be), go with the form that will be familiar to most of your readers. In other words, as with all things, prefer unambiguous forms but consider and respect your audience.
- jgwil2 5y agoHow do British people pronounce the date that they write as 15 September, 2021? Americans write the date the same way we pronounce it (September 15), but this leads to the unfortunate mm/dd/yy style of abreviation.
- flyingfences 5y ago"Fifteenth [of] September"
- CRConrad 5y ago"m/d/y" must die, die, DIE!