pooky55@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat is your idea of perfect date?lemm.eeexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down13
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minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·1 year agoISO-8601 / RFC-3339 is clearly superior, but at least DD/MM/YYYY has a rational ordering, unlike MM/DD/YYYY.
minus-squarethejoker954@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoDont know if it’s true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.
minus-squarexmunk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI, too, am an 8601 enthusiast. Stupid America means we need to go y-m-d for date ordering to not be ambiguous.
ISO-8601 / RFC-3339 is clearly superior, but at least DD/MM/YYYY has a rational ordering, unlike MM/DD/YYYY.
Dont know if it’s true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.
I, too, am an 8601 enthusiast. Stupid America means we need to go y-m-d for date ordering to not be ambiguous.