The greatest country in the world

09.08.2023 (dd/mm/yyyy) anybody?

DD/MM/YYYY is the best in my opinion

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

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

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

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

Yes I'm American

The last two are the same thing though

Reddit ass post

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

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

9AUG2023

Unix time is the best format

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

13/AUG/2023

The way I see it, the US just writes it the way it's spoken. "August 9th, 2023" vs. "the 9th of August, 2023".

If it’s a file I want sorted by date the top is good. If I am talking about a date and spelling it out August the 9th of 2023 makes the most sense and seems natural, and if it’s a personal memo or date label on food I just use 08/09 with the zeros so I know it isn’t a fraction unless it’s frozen or shelf stable for long term storage where the year would be useful to know at which point it becomes 8/9/23

I thought everybody used different date formats based on need.

23/12/08

These are the right dates

Oh no! A country uses a different date format, the horror!

The first and the last date format are terrible because you can confuse the day of the month with the number of the month.

I only like date formats where it's not possible to confuse any field, like 8 Aug 2023. I minimize ambiguity.

If the date is in a file name, I make an exception using 2023-08-09 such that a string sort is equal to a date sort.

I don't know why you wanted to know year before month or day, I use dd/mm/yyyy sometime I didn't even use yyyy just dd/mm because day change most frequent then month then year

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I like to think of the American style as machete ordering for dates.

Nah the middle one is the easiest to read.

I choose chaos.

Alright, then I guess change the way you read a clock too... My day to day use doesn't include the year at all. Just mm/dd

One of my biggest gripes when I worked at Walmart in the claims dept.

I would always have to double check items because some are sources from the US and use the US date format while the rest is in the normal format.

BB really needs to have what format was used or labels need to be printed for US sources pantry items.

True, but still a few hundred years after the start of African colonisation.

ISO standards... unbelievable how many people don't get it!

It's by smallest integer to largest, what's weird about that?

12 months a year, up to 31 days a month and X number of years. It makes the most sense

Months are dumb. Inconsistent lengths, the names are out of sync (OCTober isn't month 8), pretend to be based on lunar cycles but not, etc.

Give us Year/Day date formats. Extra new year holiday on leap years.

In theory yes stupid, in practice I've never been confused once. Its fine guys, why's it such a massive issue for everyone?

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Americans write the date the way we would say it. August 9th 2023.

(1-12)/(1-31)/(XXXX)

I don't think it's an entirely ridiculous format.

Gonna cry?