100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.

@Natasha_Jay

You forgot AM/PM, inches, feet, ounces and miles

@Natasha_Jay let's also do a similar tariff on non-metric measurement. We stragglers will be cutting over to ISO8601 and metric like we should have 50 years ago.

@Natasha_Jay @bsdphk “.” as decimal separators or “,” I don’t care anymore - just agree on one of them will you!

@Natasha_Jay @renchap YYYY/MM/DD is the only acceptable format.

@aaronmccollum @Natasha_Jay all the world has April Fools Day on the 1st of April, only US has it on 4th of January…

@Natasha_Jay Even that is not enough IYAM.

@Natasha_Jay
Add another zero!

@Natasha_Jay ISO 8601 or bust.

@Natasha_Jay @ionica or just ignore the existence of mm/dd/yy..

With error* and missing appointments they will have a steep learning curve, but will get there in the end.

* they still might understand blue screens of death.

@Natasha_Jay 100% Agree. Also on inches, feet and stones (non-standard measurement units used in the last remaining retard country in the world).

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I still have my proposal for separator to indicate format as a compromise: DD.MM.YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD and MM/DD/YYYY. This disambiguates the ones with YYYY at the end, as long as we can get americans to stop using . sometimes randomly.

@Natasha_Jay YYYY-MM-DD or no timekeeping at all

@yakkoj@fosstodon.org @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt horse racing terminology in shambles

@bsdphk @Natasha_Jay

I was just dealing with an AM/PM timesheet issue yesterday and today. (Yes! Having to fix it on a Sunday! )

And there's no "sanity check" or validation that reported work times don't overlap, for example.

@Natasha_Jay Keir Starmer to propose MD/DM/YY compromise.

@aaronmccollum
I grew up technically with Oracle Dbs and SQL which have 'DD-MON-YY' as the default display format and I got used to, pre Y2K ...

@bsdphk @Natasha_Jay AM/PM is so much better tho. And it’s not even just a US thing, look at 99.9% of wristwatches and it’ll use 12 hour time.

@Natasha_Jay And expressing quantities in cups!

No... 150% for that!

@WTL @Natasha_Jay @renchap there are arguments for either that or DD/mm/yyyy. Both are equally logical - just increasing or decreasing.

@kittylyst @Natasha_Jay Actually, after that proposal is roundly rejected by a 'certain party', he may then suggest YDM.MD.YYY before eventually saying 'We have compromised on MM.DD.YY'...