Date Format Debate
The cluster centers on debates over date formats, with strong advocacy for the unambiguous ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) standard over regional variants like MM/DD/YYYY and DD/MM/YYYY that cause international confusion.
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There is only one date format, ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD). Everything else is just a mistake that hasn’t been corrected yet ;)
Or YYYY-MM-DD as a few of us obsessive smallendians keep insisting.
The date in stipid US standard (mm/dd/yyyy) will confuse the hell of the rest of the world. Please use not US-centric ISO date format: yyyy-mm-dd.
YYYY-MM-DD should aggravate everyone equally, switch to that
What's weird about the most common date format in the world, dd-mm-yyyy?
You see YYYY-MM-DD sometimes, but that's clearly not confusable.
I know that Americans use MM/DD/YYYY. But YYYY-DD-MM???
Unless you're from one of the many countries that uses the more logical format of DD-MM-YY :P
Some languages pronounce the date as year, day, month so some people write YYYY/DD/MM. Since both YYYY/DD/MM and YYYY/MM/DD make sense to different people, neither should be used.
It’s yyyy-mm-dd not yyyy-dd-mm....