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anf0 | 4 years ago

Does anyone have any thoughts on date formats? E.g. d/m/y vs. m/d/y?

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Akronymus|4 years ago

8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

which can be any of these:

YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM YYYYMMDD

aendruk|4 years ago

ISO 8601 is proprietary and people can’t even read it without each paying a $170 access fee. Instead, prefer IETF RFC 3339 (mentioned in your link) which is a more practical open standard.

dcminter|4 years ago

In prose, use month names (i.e. 1st Jan 1979, or Jan 1st 1970). Where numbers must be used for some reason use four-digit-year first if you can. If you can't use the dictated standard or, if there isn't one (raising the obvious question of why that would be), go with the form that will be familiar to most of your readers.

In other words, as with all things, prefer unambiguous forms but consider and respect your audience.

posedge|4 years ago

The only true format is the programmer's yyyy-mm-dd :)

jgwil2|4 years ago

How do British people pronounce the date that they write as 15 September, 2021? Americans write the date the same way we pronounce it (September 15), but this leads to the unfortunate mm/dd/yy style of abreviation.

CRConrad|4 years ago

"m/d/y" must die, die, DIE!

a9h74j|4 years ago

Or did you really mean die, die, DIE? :)