StrikerM to Mildly [email protected]English • 2 years agoThis mofo was born on the wrong daylemmy.worldimagemessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1405
arrow-up1405imageThis mofo was born on the wrong daylemmy.worldStrikerM to Mildly [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoThe only thing worse than mm/dd/yyyy is dd/mm/yyyy. Use a bloody different separator if you’re writing dates correctly.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years 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.
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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.