Matt Whitlock [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-04-05 📝 Original message:On Saturday, 5 April 2014, ...
📅 Original date posted:2014-04-05
📝 Original message:On Saturday, 5 April 2014, at 12:21 pm, Jorge Timón wrote:
> I like both DD-MM-YYYY and YYYY-MM-DD. I just dislike MM-DD-YYYY and YYYY-DD-MM.
Your preferences reflect a cultural bias. The only entirely numeric date format that is unambiguous across all cultures is YYYY-MM-DD. (No culture uses YYYY-DD-MM, or at least the ISO seems to think so.)
📝 Original message:On Saturday, 5 April 2014, at 12:21 pm, Jorge Timón wrote:
> I like both DD-MM-YYYY and YYYY-MM-DD. I just dislike MM-DD-YYYY and YYYY-DD-MM.
Your preferences reflect a cultural bias. The only entirely numeric date format that is unambiguous across all cultures is YYYY-MM-DD. (No culture uses YYYY-DD-MM, or at least the ISO seems to think so.)