• Steve@communick.newsEnglish
        1023·
        2 days 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·
          2 days 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·
            2 days 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·
              2 days 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·
                2 days 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…

                • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  I am not living in a country with multiple timezones
                  I am not working in a multi-national company.

                  Should I have to define timezones, I will say so (e.g. “Let’s meet at 13:00 (or 1pm) CEST”)

          • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
            25·
            2 days 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·
          2 days ago

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