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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?

xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yesterday unless your mental.
    
    Is 27 outside right now. What am I talking about?
    
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    Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    YYYY-MM-DD is the only non-mentel way to write either.
    
    I was only answering your question about why programming a way to parse those common date formats is problematic.
    
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- xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Because all the other programmers suck.
  
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  - Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Haha
    
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