100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
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@Natasha_Jay I was once bitten by code which interpreted data entered in DD/MM/YYYY as MM/DD/YYYY unless DD > 12 in which case it fell back to DD/MM/YYYY. What a mess.
@jgrg
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay The only date that makes sense is DD/MM/YY
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@jgrg
Someone was trying to be overly clever there I sense...@Natasha_Jay It was a web form where I'd specified the date to be in YYYY-MM-DD format, but unbeknownst to me there was a clever JavaScript helper function built into the system by Americans. (I filed a bug report and got it fixed.)
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@Natasha_Jay I was once bitten by code which interpreted data entered in DD/MM/YYYY as MM/DD/YYYY unless DD > 12 in which case it fell back to DD/MM/YYYY. What a mess.
Date entry on the web is generally a mess. European sites that insist on MM/DD/YY, for example.
There's one well-known collaboration product that quite happily allows you to enter YYYY-MM-DD - and even displays what you enter correctly on the little drop-down calendar - but rejects it when you submit the form. -
100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay good thing i use "DD.MM.YYYY" and "YYYY-MM-DD"...
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay Not sure if that's enough. I'd say we need to invoke the trade bazooka in this case.
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay in km
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay "I used to not be political until the radical left started forcing DD/MM/YY down our throats, now for some reason I have strong opinions on the value of an ethnically diverse society."
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@Natasha_Jay ISO 8601 or bust.
@JessTheUnstill @Natasha_Jay after screwing it up a couple times, I had an Australian colleague say "Big to small!"
I've never made a mistake with 8601 again
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay ENDORSE!
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You forgot AM/PM, inches, feet, ounces and miles
@bsdphk @Natasha_Jay metric or die!
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@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!!!
@renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux What are you, Canadian?
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay And tablespoons, gallons, inches and miles. And pounds, ounces and such.
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@Natasha_Jay The only date that makes sense is DD/MM/YY
@danoss777
How do you distinguish between 17 december 1998 and 17 december 2098 then? @Natasha_Jay -
100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay And 200% on DD/MM/YY or anything else but YYYY-MM-DD.
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay I live in the US and work with people in the US mostly. I have taken to writing dates in DD Mon YYYY format. It’s just got the least ambiguity and also the D-M-Y progression makes way more sense.
Not that this American custom is the only uniquely backwards one
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@renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux What are you, Canadian?
@wendinoakland @Natasha_Jay @stux aspiring, yes! married one, to boot! It’s all in the master plan! Canadians get it, casually bopping back and forth, no one is confused.
Let’s leave the fuddy duddy “this is the way it SHOULD be, dang it” commentary to the fuddy duddy conservatives.
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@danoss777
How do you distinguish between 17 december 1998 and 17 december 2098 then? @Natasha_Jay@apenkop @Natasha_Jay Humanity will be long gone by then, but the AI overlords can use dreadful YYYY-MM-DD
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@apenkop @Natasha_Jay Humanity will be long gone by then, but the AI overlords can use dreadful YYYY-MM-DD
@danoss777 @Natasha_Jay
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@wendinoakland @Natasha_Jay @stux aspiring, yes! married one, to boot! It’s all in the master plan! Canadians get it, casually bopping back and forth, no one is confused.
Let’s leave the fuddy duddy “this is the way it SHOULD be, dang it” commentary to the fuddy duddy conservatives.
@renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux
Sometimes it’s metric, others it’s imperial. Let’s just get it done. It must be confusing to live between two such extremely different “parents”. 
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