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

@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'...

@pms @Natasha_Jay @bsdphk One I specifically want abandoned is comma as thousand separator, as otherwise it would be just non-breakable space as thousands separators, and either dot or comma as decimal separator.
Although could also use units as separator, like done with height (1m60) and time (1h30m)

@Natasha_Jay MMMMMMMM DD/YYYY format….

@Natasha_Jay @stux Don’t be so conservative! Month first, day first, year first, Celsius, Fahrenheit, kilometers, and miles… who cares! The future is fluid, bb!!!

@Natasha_Jay
Wow. I'm so surprised.
I'm just french I guess.

DD/MM/YYYY 24h00

It just makes sense in order of date granularity and précision. No guessing required.

I always hated the SQL formats.

@Natasha_Jay @aaronmccollum have you heard of ISO 8601 ?
YYYY-MM-DD Shall rule !

@kabel42 @pms @bsdphk @Natasha_Jay @mirabilos Not sure if it's ISO but yeah, there's some international standard which does this.
Was fun when I discovered it as it was what I was already doing for years.

@Natasha_Jay like English (US)??????????????????????????