Am I the only one feeling stupidity reading dates on devRant like 6/23/22? 😠

Im not sure where time stamps are actually shown on devrant, but I am forced to say

the only right format for dates is the ISO 8601

@LotsOfCaffeine older rants / comments get date stamped instead of just "15 min ago"

US dates make every metric being cry 😞

Sure, but how long do you spend learning dev before you come across US format dates? Not very long, surely...

@spongegeoff context is important.

When reading code you expect this bullshit.

When reading forums.. (devRant kinda is a forum) not so much, or at least it's customisable most of the time.

I hope the US will get rid of their bullshit date format.
It would be somewhat fine if they at least were consistent in using only the separator "/", but nah...
The argument that it's normal in coding is bullshit, because date time are generally stored as timestaps or ISO8601. If a coder stores dates in US format, they should immediately get shot.

@spongegeoff the thing is that you can't know if you're looking at US format for the first 12 days in a month, since both dd/mm and mm/dd are about as common. Every app is supposed to use the default locale for displaying information for the user. The other option is ISO 8601. Anything else is stupidity.

@LotsOfCaffeine Which month did @C0D4 join in?

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07-06-05 and 11/09/12
Are always a guess. You can be months and years off. It didn't matter that you know the date formats, there is just no way to know what is picked.

@hjk101 it's easy, it's either small-medium-large or large-medium-small(less popular)

you don't go full retard and think medium-small-large and its iterations.

@h4xx3r just i that is often the case. So first of all as soon as there is an either there is ambiguity. You don't want ambiguity here. If you show up to your hearing a month later you are already sentenced.

This crap happens with expiration dates. Data entry etc. Once had an American living here enter dates 2 ways for a bit. And source no longer available. So yeah it is that hard. And no you can't make assumptions because Americans use mid-smal-large all the fucking time.

@hjk101 my answer was about logical thinking but we don't live in a logical world, so here we go, medium-small-large 🥲

@h4xx3r well first the middle one and then the extreams

@h4xx3r ah yeah now I understand you. In order of significance no matter which way as long as it's in order of significance.

No because it's more like the 2040s right now

And all of you people wasted everyone's time and lives and proliferated some fucked up chomo fairy tale