• tillary@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    24
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    DDMMYYYY would be great, if it weren’t for 95% of Americans that use MMDDYYYY. Is 07/02/2000 July 2nd or Feb 7th?

    Thus the only solution is to write out the month or start with the year, because no logical group of people currently use YYYYDDMM. Plus by using YYYYMMDD you get the added benefit of the dates all being sortable using dumber applications.

    • ibk@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      because no logical group of people currently use YYYYDDMM

      You are saying it like if MMDDYYYY made any sense. To someone who uses MMDDYYYY daily, they could think of YYYYMMDD as “Its like the usual but backwards” and now you have a group of people reading it as YYYYDDMM.

      • tillary@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        You could convince a group of people to use YYYYDDMM, but what I mean is nobody currently uses it. So at this moment of time YYYYMMDD is intuitive, and has a miniscule chance of being mixed up like DDMMYYYY and MMDDYYYY (because a large number of people use these formats).

        Please don’t convince Americans to use YYYYDDMM lol. :-)

    • RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Makes sense, I just mostly interact with Europeans, so I don’t encounter this problem a lot. I really don’t have a problem with YYYYMMDD though anyway.