Comment on The perfect date

OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Baizey@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also known as an American™️

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• death_to_carrots@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, you are and you should feel shame about you.

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• Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  While it’s confusing in a vacuum, it’s also just the way we say it out loud in american English (April 20, 2026), so it’s not that weird when you think about it like that.

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  • blackbeans@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    However for countries that adopt dd-mm-yyyy, it’s also completely natural to say it out loud in that way (20 April 2026). So by that reasoning we will never end up with a universally accepted date format.

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    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep, I agree. There’s no wrong answer, and language differs by culture.

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      • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There’s a right answer, and it’s yyyy-mm-dd.

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s MMM d yyyy, not mm dd yyyy. It removes the ambiguity but also removes the sortability. yyyy-mm-dd for the win.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think it’s better than day month year but both are worse than year month day.

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