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Who cares to touch the grass? (lemm.ee)
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[–] 94 points 3 years ago (4 children)

This.

I can handle DDMMYY[YY] it reads correctly. But YYYYMMDD is numerically correct, most signifcant to least significant digitwise.

That thing only American's do, is completely non-sensical.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    For sorting or filing, I agree. I think in day to day life, though, Day and month are way more significant. So I actually prefer DDMMYYYY for that.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    DDMMYYYY would be great, if it weren't for 95% of Americans that use MMDDYYYY. Is 07/02/2000 July 2nd or Feb 7th?

    Thus the only solution is to write out the month or start with the year, because no logical group of people currently use YYYYDDMM. Plus by using YYYYMMDD you get the added benefit of the dates all being sortable using dumber applications.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    because no logical group of people currently use YYYYDDMM

    You are saying it like if MMDDYYYY made any sense. To someone who uses MMDDYYYY daily, they could think of YYYYMMDD as "Its like the usual but backwards" and now you have a group of people reading it as YYYYDDMM.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    You could convince a group of people to use YYYYDDMM, but what I mean is nobody currently uses it. So at this moment of time YYYYMMDD is intuitive, and has a miniscule chance of being mixed up like DDMMYYYY and MMDDYYYY (because a large number of people use these formats).

    Please don't convince Americans to use YYYYDDMM lol. :-)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's because that's how we talk. We say October 5th, not the 5th of October.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I still prefer yyyymmdd for day to day. If year is irrelevant just skip it. If you only use a date format you get used to it and it becomes the most efficient one due to consistency. Sidenote, in my language the default date format is actually yyyymmdd.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (5 children)

    It is sensical for one use:

    "So when is the event?"
    "May 20th, 2024"

    It's such a niche use, though

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I know you've been bashed already by others, but could you elaborate on why this is sensical?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    In a, "Alright I guess that technically works and at least can follow the logic". It's pretty damn niche, however (who is going to ask for two or more years in advanced for a date and not go, "Just text/email it"? Heck, even this is pushing it, but I can at least follow the logic)

    Could be that I'm slightly fucking up definitions in my head, it was a long day yesterday

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