• Fushuan [he/him]
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    9211 days ago

    “Europe”, as if there weren’t several languages in Europe with different date formats per language…

      • htrayl
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        611 days ago

        Meh. It’s getting a lot of hate here, but I think it works well in casual short term planning. Context (July) - > precision (15).

        If I want to communicate the day in the current month, I just say the day, no month.

        • stebo
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          1810 days ago

          ok but by that logic you’d start with the year

          • @[email protected]
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            910 days ago

            No because the year is a super large time; there’s a reason people always say they take a bit to adjust to writing the new year in dates because it’s s long enough period of time that it almost becomes automatic.

            For archiving, sure; most other things, no (logically, ISO-8601 is probably the best for most cases, in general, but I’ll die on the hill that MM-DD-YYYY is better than DD-MM-YYYY).

            • stebo
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              2710 days ago

              well either you omit the year, or you start with it

              americans start with the month and end with the year, which is totally wild

                • stebo
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                  310 days ago

                  Because it’s consistent that way. Why not is the real question?

                • @[email protected]
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                  19 days ago

                  Because “context -> precision” is exactly the reason someone earlier gave as reasoning for the American system?

              • @[email protected]
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                -110 days ago

                Again, – within most use cases – it really isn’t.

                In your day to day, will you need to know the year of a thing? Probably not; it’s probably with the year you’re currently in.

                Do you need to know the day of the month first? Probably not unless it’s within the current month so you need to know the month first.

                Telling me “22nd” on a paper means nothing if I don’t know what month we’re referring to; and, if I do need to know the year, – well – it’s always at the the of the date so it’s easy to locate rather than parsing the middle of the date, any.

                • stebo
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                  710 days ago

                  In your day to day, will you need to know the year of a thing? Probably not; it’s probably with the year you’re currently in.

                  that’s why I said you could omit it. did you read what I wrote?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    -210 days ago

                    Yeah; I did. And that’s a short stop for that date being useless in the future, after the short-term use case. That’s more wild, to me, than having the least useful part of the date just be at the end where it’s easily locatable.

            • @[email protected]
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              210 days ago

              the year is a super large time

              Not when you’re old… I’ll be 50 this year, they’re flying by.

    • @comtact
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      19 days ago

      Keep that kinda talk up and you’ll go straight to tariff!