Whoever came up with the "brilliant" idea of having different date formats should be punched in their face! Stop inventing all sorts of idiotic local standards for every little freaking thing! This goes for Americans and Europeans alike! FFS! Why can't everybody just agree on using yyyy-MM-dd, the only correct and sensible date format?! Sweden is the only country that I know has got it right.

P.S. And you Americans, go metric already! Inches, feet, and whatever measurement units you make up are just nonsense.

02/25/25 is the best

and make sure to use 12:00 a.m./p.m.

to make date format great again

Obviously, different countries came up with their own format independently and then refused to change it to something else because everybody is so used to it.

Did you know that the dutch (Professor Jansen) invented date & time? We should use their format.

@TerriToniAX omg we've been through this

The only correct way to count time is in second since the first of january 1970

yyyy-MM-dd is the superior format to all.

The US uses an abridged version of yyyy-MM-dd in everyday communication.

Most times when communicating a date, the month is the most important part because there are only 12 of them, so we anchor the day with it. When the day is understood to be this month, we go with -d{suffix} Usually the year is redundant, so we use MM-dd. When it needs to be included, it is usually the least important part of the date, making it MM-dd-YYYY

The best part is that our dates are still logically sortable without the year.

@TerriToniAX 9mm, 10mm, etc. We use metric in some perforation units.

I don't think we will ever replace millions (billions?) of miles of different types of pipe though.

What is wrong in measuring Eurotards/Day (E/D) complaining about the US systems of measure?

@cuddlyogre I just make sure all my save files with dates in the name are yyyy-MM-dd, plus time. Most displays who MM-dd-yyyy. Not sure that will ever be fixed/change.

@antigermgerm yeah we’ve been through this and your attempt at trolling failed.

Now you may continue with your typical bullshit, insulting me and telling me how your system is not retarded.

Also wire gauges and drill numbers, drill letters (ffs), things being multiplied by powers of 10, writing "10.4" to mean 10 years and 4 months, and Indian number formats.

@devux-bookmark

I take it you're being ironical, right? :)

@Lensflare

Of course I'm aware of this :) But still, why can't different countries agree on some simple standards? It's not like they have to give up their way of life or anything if they changed their date format to something that makes sense. Talking about Sweden and changing standards, they used to drive on the left side, but made the switch in 1967, spending milliards to comply with the standards of their neighbouring countries. In my country we seem to have made a compromise though; many people drive in the middle of the road ;)

@TerriToniAX I‘d be the first one to agree to change to a good standard, but it’s practically impossible to pull it off today.
Anyone who would suggest id would be drowned in a massive shitstorm.

Just look at the daylight saving time. It would be much, much easier to get rid off. But even this isn‘t happening.

@Lensflare

I couldn't agree more on DST. What a stupid idea that was, trying to fix something that wasn't broken just to cause a lot of unnecessary problems.

dd/mm/yyyy

this is better imo

@AceDev

I strongly disagree. What you're suggesting is little-endian, i.e. the least significant value comes first, making it impossible to make any sensible sorting on the date, provided that all reading/parsing/sorting is performed from left-to-right. having date first and year last is just as logical as having a decimal number format where decimals come first, e.g. 50.122 instead of 122.50. Plus it's inconsistent. As yyyy means a year from left to right, e.g. 2025 (and not 5202) it wouldn't be properly backwards neither, but an unreadable mix of left to right and then bounce back left again. Also, slashes (/) are bad for any strings as they are usually an escape character, and even worse for uris where slashes are used for directories.

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