Daryl Tucker [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-04-05 📝 Original message:YYYY-MM-DD sorts more ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-04-05
📝 Original message:YYYY-MM-DD sorts more naturally.


On 04/05/2014 06:28 AM, Wladimir wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Matt Whitlock <bip at mattwhitlock.name
> <mailto:bip at mattwhitlock.name>> wrote:
>
> 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.)
>
>
> Let's not waste any time shed-painting this. I'd like to finish this
> discussion at once:
>
> https://xkcd.com/1179/
>
> Wladimir
>
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