Comment by My_Name
4 days ago
Can I just say that, as someone born and bred in the UK, YYYY-MM-DD is the only correct way to display a date wherever you live.
Anything else is as bad as using mm:hh...
4 days ago
Can I just say that, as someone born and bred in the UK, YYYY-MM-DD is the only correct way to display a date wherever you live.
Anything else is as bad as using mm:hh...
as someone born and bred in the UK, YYYY-MM-DD is the only correct way to display a date
Do you also address your mail to "United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh;" or tell people, "I'm going on holiday to Croatia, Split?"
I do write Lisbon, Portugal, whenever I talk about where I live. Doesn't take much extra effort to provide more precision and avoids possible confusions.
You probably should, actually.
TIL mm:hh is a thing o_O
> Anything else is as bad as using mm:hh...
Please tell me that's not a thing.
Just look at your crontab, love.
It is now.
In a moment of whimsy I briefly considered a date format where digits were sorted alphabetically.
2026-07-02-16-31-52 -> -----00011222235667
Hopefully it will remain a nonsense and never be seen in the wild, unlike the phone number field which I found on a real website which responded to scroll events to increase and decrease the value it contained.
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