USA is the edgy teen after moving out of the parents house (Europe) and finally doing stuff their own way. Not because it is practical, but because they feel rebellious.
Lol, This is probably the best explanation of America that I’ve ever heard.🤣👍🏾
Date Formats:
Aug 9, 20239 Aug, 20238/9/2023 US9/8/2023 GB2023/8/9Correct Date Formats:
9 AUG, Juche 112 ✅
2023-08-09
*9 AUG, Duche 112✅️😉
Majority of the world uses YYYY-MM-DD. Day 1st makes no sense. If you need the month or year it should come 1st. You need to zoom into what you need not select from any number of months with the same day. That would be like putting time with seconds 1st.
Not really, most countries use YYYY-MM-DD to save documents, photos or archive papers.
DD-MM-YYYY is for daily usage.
DD/MM/YYYY is the best in my opinion
I agree with this because if you were to say the whole thing verbally, you generally start with the day, the month then the year.
“It is the 9th of August in the year of our Lord 2023.”
Aug 9, 2023and08/09/23literally say the same thing.The first isn’t ambiguous at all; the second is hella ambiguous.
It’s only ambiguous because there’s a second standard.
08/09/23 literally says the 8th day of september.
That’s why I write 9 Aug ‘23
No, the second one says “Sept. 8th 2023” and that last panel is obviously British (you can tell by the teeth) /s
ISO 8601 or nothing. Descending order of granularity, keep everything sorted as it should be!
My personal preference is DD-MM-AAAA, but as someone that works with lots of data from different formats and timezones… I have to agree with you…
YYYYMMDD and UTC should be the global default.
annum annum annum annum
RFC 3339, because ISO is not free.
09.08.2023 (dd/mm/yyyy) anybody?
I like it for reading and using the date day to day
But yyy-mm-dd is best for sorting and archiving files
People rarely use them in real life, but ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 (both are almost identical) are the most natural ways of writing date and time. Just like how we write numbers, their components are written from left to right in the decreasing order of significance: yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS. I like it by default for precisely the reason you mentioned - sorting. It even helps quick visual comparisons.
It’s dd/MM/yyyy you nincompoop
Why would you put the day first?
Because it changes most often.
Why does that mean it should go first?
Because you are able to read the thing that changes most often first. It is more convinient to read from left to right.
Last two are both dumb, YYYY-MM-DD or DD-MM-YYYY or go home
Yes I’m American
9AUG2023
HOLY
Reddit ass post
The way I see it, the US just writes it the way it’s spoken. “August 9th, 2023” vs. “the 9th of August, 2023”.
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.
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”
13/AUG/2023
These are the right dates
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.
I don’t know why you wanted to know year before month or day, I use dd/mm/yyyy sometime I didn’t even use yyyy just dd/mm because day change most frequent then month then year
YYYY-MM-DD is best when programming because it’s unambiguous and it makes sorting easier. For humans DD-MM-YYYY is indeed the most sensible.
I like to think of the American style as machete ordering for dates.
ISO standards… unbelievable how many people don’t get it!
