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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Paradachshund@lemmy.today 5 hours agoWhile 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.
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
blackbeans@lemmy.zip 3 hours 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.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
Yep, I agree. There’s no wrong answer, and language differs by culture.
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
There’s a right answer, and it’s yyyy-mm-dd.