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USA is the edgy teen after moving out of the parents house (Europe) and finally doing stuff their own way. Not because it is practical, but because they feel rebellious.
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DD/MM/YYYY is the best in my opinion
I agree with this because if you were to say the whole thing verbally, you generally start with the day, the month then the year.
"It is the 9th of August in the year of our Lord 2023."
We wouldn't in America in most cases. I'd say it's August 9th 2023. I honestly feel like this is such a dumb argument to have because it doesn't matter except for communication with people who use other methods. Now metric vs imperial makes way more sense to me because the metric system is just so much easier for mathematical conversions.
In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.
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In the USA most people would say “august 9th”, not “the 9th of august”, which is one of the reasons mm/dd/yyyy is the standard format here
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09.08.2023 (dd/mm/yyyy) anybody?
I like it for reading and using the date day to day
But yyy-mm-dd is best for sorting and archiving files
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ISO 8601 or nothing. Descending order of granularity, keep everything sorted as it should be!
My personal preference is DD-MM-AAAA, but as someone that works with lots of data from different formats and timezones... I have to agree with you...
YYYYMMDD and UTC should be the global default.
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RFC 3339, because ISO is not free.
Tell me more? I can look it up but I'm curious if anybody ever got problems from using a standard like that
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Aug 9, 2023 and 08/09/23 literally say the same thing.
They do but one informs the reader of the order of the format while the other doesn’t.
Look it's easy, you just wait until the 13th of the month to figure out which format it is. Is 12 days really so much to ask?
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08/09/23 literally says the 8th day of september.
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Last two are both dumb, YYYY-MM-DD or DD-MM-YYYY or go home
Yes I'm American
The last two are the same thing though
The last one is ambiguous because it could be either august ninth or september eigth.
I swear, a lot of you would have no joy in life if you weren't able to bitch about the stupidest shit.
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Reddit ass post
09/08/2023 (I'm an American who doesn't care what everyone in my country uses if that "custom" is nonsense...)
Im a Canadian, and unfortunetely we use both formats, with no context.
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Date stamps are stupid, but they're nowhere near as stupid as this attempt to criticize them
13/AUG/2023
If it’s a file I want sorted by date the top is good. If I am talking about a date and spelling it out August the 9th of 2023 makes the most sense and seems natural, and if it’s a personal memo or date label on food I just use 08/09 with the zeros so I know it isn’t a fraction unless it’s frozen or shelf stable for long term storage where the year would be useful to know at which point it becomes 8/9/23
I thought everybody used different date formats based on need.
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