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[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Up until the comment thread I'd never heard an American say that at all.

And there's no proof the shithead in the comments is American. Definitely a troll though.

In any case this is easy to explain since the 4th of July was a holiday made by British citizens.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 115 points 1 week ago (11 children)

As someone from a yyyy-mm-dd country, you're all wrong /hj

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 86 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yyyy-mm-dd is specified by ISO 8601, so there's really no argument it isn't the objectively correct format.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

What about RFC 9557, which is an update to RFC 3339?

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I always use yyyy.mm.dd as my date format whenever I sign and date documents. I also use a pictograph instead of initials. Someone tried to forge a contract edit to try and get out of paying but used the mm/dd/yy format. The moment my lawyer showed this to their lawyer, they settled immediately for the original amount, legal fees, and late payment penalties. Dumbasses.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago

That's beautiful. I love a bit of personal standards to fuck someone else's day up.

I typically change my responses on the form to Calibri if using MS Office. It's not enough to pique anyone's interest, but it's different enough to spot what I've added to a form rather than the usual Arial additions if you've been told about it.

Someone at my office tried to say I'd said something on a form when I hadn't, and took great delight pointing out the slight difference in typeface on the field that wasn't my edit.

It's satisfying as fuck coming back at someone with receipts.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 86 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Both are wrong. The correct way to write the date is YYYY-MM-DD. This is the only way to sort dates linearly in a list. ISO 8601.

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm so glad you think we are all computers

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago

Our lives involve computers to a huge degree.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

It's frustrating that people are so bad at dates that ISO8601 lives rent-free in my head because I constantly have to tell people ;)

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 46 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Why is the format not:

2025/4/12

Biggest time frame to smallest time frame (year, month, then day)?

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 1 points 6 days ago

Because humans are not computers. That scheme makes sense when you are filling out things that are not nearby in time. For example, filling in your birth date on tax forms.

Otherwise, humans don't generally need the context of the year. The same is true of the month only if the context is clear (I'll see you on the 20th implies the very next 20th). A year is much longer and most things are not planned out that far in advance. If they are, they often dont have precise dates in which case a month or even a quarter is more appropriate.

Time is also one of those things where humans are so used to contextual processing that representing the full date adds overhead. 2025/4/20, 4/20/2025, 20/4/2025 all take more processing than "the 20th" or "next Sunday".

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As a computer scientist, I've been doing this everywhere for over 10 years already. Be the change you want to see in the world.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Issues with unix paths. I prefer 2025-04-12.

[–] ptu@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

2009, got it

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[–] chicagohuman@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

ISO8601 FTW!

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Coldest take: if any common date format is difficult for you, you're a little bit ridiculous

[–] RyanLiu@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It's all fun and games until someone drops a 7/4 and you don't know which country they're from

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 week ago

November 9 never forget.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

What Americans are calling people idiots for saying (day) of (month)? We say it both ways all the time. 4th of July, July 4th... it's not a complicated thing.

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

It’s like saying USAians don’t have a sense of humour. Some USAians are MAGAt knob heads, some are perfectly reasonable people. More or less like anywhere else.

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[–] SirBucksworth@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you think of DD/HH/YYYY/Min/MM/Sec?

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I like DD MON YYYY. Feels very grand and unambiguous, but people always look at me funny for using it.

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 13 points 1 week ago

With the way things are going over there, the whole thing falls apart soon enough and this issue can be fixed in the rebuild.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The holiday "The Fourth of July" happens on July 4th. Not hard.

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[–] Surp@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

None of this dumb shits going to matter when the meteor sephiroth summoned blows the earth up

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