Comment on Pi Day
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 11 months agoNo need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior
Comment on Pi Day
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 11 months agoNo need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior
Shareni@programming.dev 11 months ago
DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that’s a superior format.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Also the date format used organically in East Asia because of the cultural habit of writing big to small.
English tends small to big, so I don’t know where yanks got their date format from.
dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Can you elaborate on that last part? I fail to think of anything where its natural for English to go from small units to big units.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Addresses is the main one.
But also when talking about objects and categories, e.g. “the oak is a type of tree”, not “trees have a type which is oak”.