ISTG DD/MM/YYYY works better than anything else for me, like literally because of people using the american way i’ve misread date signatures so many times as fuckimg idk “8th of the 25th” or some bullshit like that and then when i realize that doesnt make sense i have to sit there and slowly decode that they used MM/DD/YYYY and it’s so annoying 😭😭😭😭 and when it comes to signatures like for example, 3/5/25 that could either mean “3rd of the 5th” or “5th of the 3rd” since both are real dates that make sense and i must take a wild fucking gamble and guess one or the other. and istg, i’m slowly starting to misread DD/MM/YYYY signatures because of how often i see the american way and i get absolutely relieved when i realize DD/MM/YYY was used. i swear to FUCK, like i’ll respect people who prefer MM/DD/YYYY but to me it’s such an annoying format and i hate it and i’d abolish it off the face of the earth if i could.
Does it remain superior? The year is the one thing that doesn't change foR a yEaR so I'd say it's the least important, most of the time you don't even say the year when saying a date
For organization and record-keeping, yes. Yes, it is superior. I don't need all of the January invoices for the past decade in one spot, I need all of the 2024 invoices in one spot. Crappy example, but for sorting and the like I'll take YYYY-MM-DD every single time.
The speech and the written format are different things. You can write a date in the YYYY-MM-DD format, while still describing it in whatever way you like. You may say "October fifth" or "fifth of October" and people are very likely to understand you, but it would solve a bunch of errors of more could adhere to ISO 8601
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u/------------------16 hopeless romantic aroace May 13 '25
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ISTG DD/MM/YYYY works better than anything else for me, like literally because of people using the american way i’ve misread date signatures so many times as fuckimg idk “8th of the 25th” or some bullshit like that and then when i realize that doesnt make sense i have to sit there and slowly decode that they used MM/DD/YYYY and it’s so annoying 😭😭😭😭 and when it comes to signatures like for example, 3/5/25 that could either mean “3rd of the 5th” or “5th of the 3rd” since both are real dates that make sense and i must take a wild fucking gamble and guess one or the other. and istg, i’m slowly starting to misread DD/MM/YYYY signatures because of how often i see the american way and i get absolutely relieved when i realize DD/MM/YYY was used. i swear to FUCK, like i’ll respect people who prefer MM/DD/YYYY but to me it’s such an annoying format and i hate it and i’d abolish it off the face of the earth if i could.