• Steve@communick.newsEnglish
            923·
            18 hours ago

            In every left to right language, the largest value numerical digits are on the left, smallest value digits are on the right.

            The country doesn’t matter. Years are bigger than months. Months are bigger than days. If your country does anything other than YYYY*MM*DD, they’re doing numbers wrong.

            • content_educator_94@thelemmy.club
              151·
              16 hours ago

              I’m glad you get to definite wrong for everyone else

              Also I got news for you

              There are a variety of formats that are thriving and in constant use all over the world that differ from what you consider correct

              (I’ve never encountered a date format nazi before, this is first contact for me.)

              • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
                51·
                15 hours ago

                I’ve never encountered a date format nazi before, this is first contact for me.

                I guess you haven’t had the pleasure of working with many database administrators then ;)

                • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  2·
                  13 hours ago

                  Human readable: Either ddmmyyyy or yyyymmdd
                  Computer: yyyymmddhhmmss only.

                  Imo the only wrong thing to do is mmddyyyy
                  That 's just cursed. Like imperial system.

                  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
                    1·
                    10 hours ago

                    But how do you document which version of an hour it is when daylight savings time “falls back”? What about leap seconds? Also if there’s no time zone specified is it local? UTC? GMT? I could go on…

              • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
                25·
                15 hours ago

                I’m glad you get to definite wrong for everyone else

                It’s not the boon it seems to be.

                There are a variety of formats that are thriving and in constant use all over the world that differ from what you consider correct

                I’m aware. That’s why it’s annoying to be the one who determines right and wrong, nobody listens.

            • nao@sh.itjust.works
              21·
              11 hours ago

              I don’t get the downvotes. Even if no country at all uses it, there is only one correct order of the numbers.

    • libewa@feddit.org
      61·
      18 hours ago

      Well yes, but this will never exist in ISO 8601, sadly. We’ll take what we can get, see you in 3141!
      #iso8601ultras!