Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As a programmer I agree. I have fucked around with trying to parse unrestricted user inputs of dates and I have found out.

  Year first is the only way I can actually know which value is day vs. month.

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  • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why don’t programmers make a programme that can read dates instead of complaining that dates aren’t in a obscure format?

    They in control of their own issues.

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    • Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The date is 12/11/2024. Am I talking about yesterday or a day about a month ago?

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      • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yesterday unless your mental.

        Is 27 outside right now. What am I talking about?

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    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Because all the other programmers suck.

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      • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Haha

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• blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s great for lists but I don’t know a single person who’s gonna say “hey let’s meet up on 2024 December 11th.”

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  • tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Dates written in a numbers only format are not about matching the spoken language. You also would not say, “let’s meet on twelve eleven twenty twentyfour.”

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    • Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In German and Swedish, this would be totally fine. Beside this would be November 12th. The German way for the year would be twothousandtwentyfour while the Swedish would be twentyhundred twentyfour.

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    • procrastitron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s the format used in large parts of Asia.

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  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You must not know many programmers that have had to deal with American date formatting then.

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    • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I used to be a programmer myself and it’s why there’s a specific default data structure built in to most programming languages to handle dates and internationalization of those dates.

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      • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Please someone tell oracle and microsoft.

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• oo1@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes.

  If I saw that in a job advert I might just apply without reading the rest. I don’t think I ever have though.

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