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[–] mkwarman@lemmy.world 181 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm definitely in the "for almost everything" camp. It's less ambiguous especially when you consider the DD/MM vs MM/DD nonsense between US dates vs elsewhere. Pretty much the only time I don't use ISO-8601 is when I'm using non-numeric month names like when saying a date out loud.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's pretty much everything for me too. The biggest exception being when UI is involved and a longhand date format would be more friendly.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The time reapers

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In Canada we use MM/DD and DD/MM so you never quite know which it is! There's an expense spreadsheet I fill out for work that uses one format in one place and the other format in another....

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

Holy cats, that sounds like a nightmare.

[–] mkwarman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That would ruin my entire day

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hey, that sounds like my cloud storage providers auto billing system.

“Your auto renewal will draft on 08/09/23.”

Is that August 9th or September 8th? Literally depends on where the person you ask is in the world.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

And you can do a simple sort on the combined number and youve sorted by date.