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?

• tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago

      Please someone tell oracle and microsoft.

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      • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/…/Date.html

        learn.microsoft.com/en-us/…/system.datetime?view=…

        Looks like someone already did. Been around since at least JDK 1.1

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