Context clues are enough for me, 4/7 times
Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates
RyanLiu@lemmy.world 6 days agoIt’s all fun and games until someone drops a 7/4 and you don’t know which country they’re from
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I only deal with people from one country, but I always write out the month so there’s no confusion in important messages. Even including the day of the week as a type of verification.
tuhriel@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
I usually go for if it has a / its probably US date formate…
We use dots in our Locale
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 6 days ago
RIP Australia and our DD/MM/YYYY (and rest of the former British Empire I assume).
Drives me nuts when software doesn’t properly localise.
Looking at you, Excel for web which defaults to MM/DD/YYYY for some reason, even though the desktop app has no issues…
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
November 9 never forget.