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[-] Thcgrasscity@lemmy.ca 81 points 10 months ago

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

USA is the edgy teen after moving out of the parents house (Europe) and finally doing stuff their own way. Not because it is practical, but because they feel rebellious.

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[-] Uvine_Umbra@partizle.com 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Date Formats:

~~Aug 9, 2023~~

~~9 Aug, 2023~~

~~8/9/2023 US~~

~~9/8/2023 GB~~

~~2023/8/9~~

Correct Date Formats:

9 AUG, Juche 112 ✅

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[-] Chev@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

09.08.2023 (dd/mm/yyyy) anybody?

[-] volcanocompetent@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

I like it for reading and using the date day to day

But yyy-mm-dd is best for sorting and archiving files

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[-] autisticBreakcore@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago

DD/MM/YYYY is the best in my opinion

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 68 points 10 months ago

YYYY-MM-DD is better if you need to sort

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 10 months ago

I agree with this because if you were to say the whole thing verbally, you generally start with the day, the month then the year.

"It is the 9th of August in the year of our Lord 2023."

[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

We wouldn't in America in most cases. I'd say it's August 9th 2023. I honestly feel like this is such a dumb argument to have because it doesn't matter except for communication with people who use other methods. Now metric vs imperial makes way more sense to me because the metric system is just so much easier for mathematical conversions.

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.

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[-] rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 months ago

In the USA most people would say “august 9th”, not “the 9th of august”, which is one of the reasons mm/dd/yyyy is the standard format here

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[-] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago

ISO 8601 or nothing. Descending order of granularity, keep everything sorted as it should be!

[-] Waker@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago

My personal preference is DD-MM-AAAA, but as someone that works with lots of data from different formats and timezones... I have to agree with you...

YYYYMMDD and UTC should be the global default.

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[-] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 10 months ago

RFC 3339, because ISO is not free.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Tell me more? I can look it up but I'm curious if anybody ever got problems from using a standard like that

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

ISO charges for their standards

https://www.iso.org/store.html

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[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 44 points 10 months ago

Aug 9, 2023 and 08/09/23 literally say the same thing.

[-] CosmoVerde@kbin.social 88 points 10 months ago

They do but one informs the reader of the order of the format while the other doesn’t.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 54 points 10 months ago

Look it's easy, you just wait until the 13th of the month to figure out which format it is. Is 12 days really so much to ask?

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[-] ebits21@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

The first isn’t ambiguous at all; the second is hella ambiguous.

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[-] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 months ago

08/09/23 literally says the 8th day of september.

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[-] outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 10 months ago

Can’t believe relevant xkcd hasn’t been posted.

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[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Last two are both dumb, YYYY-MM-DD or DD-MM-YYYY or go home

Yes I'm American

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 22 points 10 months ago

The last two are the same thing though

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

The last one is ambiguous because it could be either august ninth or september eigth.

[-] scottywh@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

I swear, a lot of you would have no joy in life if you weren't able to bitch about the stupidest shit.

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[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Reddit ass post

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 14 points 10 months ago

09/08/2023 (I'm an American who doesn't care what everyone in my country uses if that "custom" is nonsense...)

[-] ScottyShines@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Im a Canadian, and unfortunetely we use both formats, with no context.

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[-] meatwad75892@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

9AUG2023

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[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Unix time is the best format

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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Date stamps are stupid, but they're nowhere near as stupid as this attempt to criticize them

[-] solidsnake2085@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

13/AUG/2023

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