Striker@lemmy.worldM to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoThis mofo was born on the wrong daylemmy.worldimagemessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1399arrow-down127
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minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down11·10 months agoThe only thing worse than mm/dd/yyyy is dd/mm/yyyy. Use a bloody different separator if you’re writing dates correctly.
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·10 months agoIt’s already in use for mm/dd/yyyy. When I see slashes I expect that, when I see dots I expect dd.mm.yyyy, when I see hyphens I expect yyyy-mm-dd. And then comes along a random I guess Canuck and writes something totally incomprehensible.
minus-squareMyNotPublicAccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months ago it’s already in use for mm/dd/yyyy No, it’s already in use for dd/mm/yyyy. When the majority of the world sees slashes (with the four-digit year at the end), they expect that. Americans are the ones making things ambiguous.
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoThen, fine, make the yanks use another symbol.
The only thing worse than mm/dd/yyyy is dd/mm/yyyy. Use a bloody different separator if you’re writing dates correctly.
What wrong with /
It’s already in use for mm/dd/yyyy. When I see slashes I expect that, when I see dots I expect dd.mm.yyyy, when I see hyphens I expect yyyy-mm-dd.
And then comes along a random I guess Canuck and writes something totally incomprehensible.
No, it’s already in use for dd/mm/yyyy. When the majority of the world sees slashes (with the four-digit year at the end), they expect that. Americans are the ones making things ambiguous.
Then, fine, make the yanks use another symbol.