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It’s by smallest integer to largest, what’s weird about that?
12 months a year, up to 31 days a month and X number of years. It makes the most sense
Try to figure out a way to sort it automatically and get back to me on why it’s stupid
Easy. Don’t store dates as a text string. That’s just bad programming.
When you say “don’t store dates as a string” what you’re really saying is “wait for someone else to solve the problem and release a library, then use that library”. That seems to be what the majority of the industry does (I’m a Java coder myself and joda is a lifesaver in that regard) but my point is that this problem is hard. Date and time stamps are a subtly difficult part of the average API monkey’s daily work.
Because it gets horribly fucky when you now have to figure out if a date is actually formatted as MM-DD-YY or DD-MM-YY.
Surely we’ve all handled reading an expiration date before and have wondered if we’re eating something OK or has expired months ago because they chose the other format.
(Honestly, I think both formats are shit, and the only correct way to do dates with numbers only is YYYY-MM-DD. If not, then at least use letters for months, like 30 AUG 2023)
Surely we’ve all handled reading an expiration date before and have wondered if we’re eating something OK or has expired months ago
No, I haven’t, and I don’t know anyone else who has
Then you’ve never bought imported food or never got food gifts overseas. Or never travelled to a country that used the format that you don’t use.
For example, 06/09/2023 could mean either you’re eating something that expires next month, or expired two months ago.
It should be ordered by significance (ideally descending). USA’s date is like putting the million between the thousands and the unit.
Nah the middle one is the easiest to read.
ISO standards… unbelievable how many people don’t get it!
Alright, then I guess change the way you read a clock too… My day to day use doesn’t include the year at all. Just mm/dd
Why change the way you read a clock? year/month/day hour:minute:second
You would never read a clock as minute:second:hour, which is analagous to how Americans phrase dates.
Lot of people say “half passed” or “quarter 'til” and optionally include the hour.
I don’t, but some people do.
The 12-hour system is similar to this issue
The way I see it, the US just writes it the way it’s spoken. “August 9th, 2023” vs. “the 9th of August, 2023”.
No, the US just chose this order and speaks it the same way. I don’t speak it this way, you’re just used to it (just like everyone is to the way they speak it)
Yeah, but in proper English, as spoken in England, we would say “9th of August, not August the 9th”
Just like the comment above mine wrote it
That also doesn’t make a lot of sense though, does it. In my language, the day comes first. Also when spoken.
It does in real English too.
Sorry, guess I forgot about that classic American holiday, July 4th
That is indeed how many Americans say it.
(1-12)/(1-31)/(XXXX)
I don’t think it’s an entirely ridiculous format.
One of my biggest gripes when I worked at Walmart in the claims dept.
I would always have to double check items because some are sources from the US and use the US date format while the rest is in the normal format.
BB really needs to have what format was used or labels need to be printed for US sources pantry items.
In theory yes stupid, in practice I’ve never been confused once. Its fine guys, why’s it such a massive issue for everyone?
My clock says the time is 45:09:00. Should feel so natural to anyone in the US, right?
9AUG2023
HOLY
The last two are the same thing though
The last one is ambiguous because it could be either august ninth or september eigth.
09/08/2023 (I’m an American who doesn’t care what everyone in my country uses if that “custom” is nonsense…)
Do you use metric? :)
I use Fahrenheit just because it’s a pain to get everything set to Celsius and other Americans don’t understand it. But I use grams, kilos, millilitres, kilometres, etc. Yes. And if someone asks me to guess the length of an object I will give centimetres, and refuse to translate to inches and their stupid fractions.
Based
So you use Fahrenheit because Americans don’t understand Celsius but you don’t convert to imperial for them if they don’t understand? That just seems inconsiderate as it’s really no trouble at all
Yes. And if someone asks me to guess the length of an object I will give centimetres, and refuse to translate to inches and their stupid fractions.
Some proud neckbeard shit right here. “Fuck communicating effectively with people. They don’t even know I only use the metric system!”
But yeah, got em… I guess.
I kind of get it, it’s like language immersion. How do you easily describe anything besides the freezing point and boiling point of water in an objective way? The rest, you can point to and say “this weighs a kilo” ot “this holds a liter.” And if you don’t force people to use it, they’ll simply refuse. And we all carry handy unit conversion tools with us wherever we go these days, so if they don’t want to learn, they can easily translate it themselves.
I see an brave! Inspire!
Im a Canadian, and unfortunetely we use both formats, with no context.
Which is why written down or typed without a format prompt I use “12 Aug 2023”
Goddamn German memes invading everywhere.
Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Kommentarbereich!
I like to think of the American style as machete ordering for dates.
Aug 9, 2023and08/09/23literally say the same thing.That’s why I write 9 Aug ‘23
The first isn’t ambiguous at all; the second is hella ambiguous.
It’s only ambiguous because there’s a second standard.
Is 08/09/2023 August or September? What about 08.09.2023? Do you see where the problem lies?
08/09/23 literally says the 8th day of september.
They do but one informs the reader of the order of the format while the other doesn’t.
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August 9th 2023 would be 09.08.2023 in Germany though 😉
Also changing it to periods doesn’t avoid confusion about the order. Also pretty sure we fought a whole war over not being like the Germans, so…
It’s quite simple really. The order is “small to big”. You start with the smallest unit, in this case the day. Then follows the next largest unit, the month, and finally the year. Basically the same as in the top picture, but in reverse order.
Look it’s easy, you just wait until the 13th of the month to figure out which format it is. Is 12 days really so much to ask?
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No, the second one says “Sept. 8th 2023” and that last panel is obviously British (you can tell by the teeth) /s
