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The greatest country in the world (lemmy.world)
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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

It's by smallest integer to largest, what's weird about that?

12 months a year, up to 31 days a month and X number of years. It makes the most sense

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

    Because it gets horribly fucky when you now have to figure out if a date is actually formatted as MM-DD-YY or DD-MM-YY.

    Surely we've all handled reading an expiration date before and have wondered if we're eating something OK or has expired months ago because they chose the other format.

    (Honestly, I think both formats are shit, and the only correct way to do dates with numbers only is YYYY-MM-DD. If not, then at least use letters for months, like 30 AUG 2023)

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

    Surely we’ve all handled reading an expiration date before and have wondered if we’re eating something OK or has expired months ago

    No, I haven't, and I don't know anyone else who has

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Then you've never bought imported food or never got food gifts overseas. Or never travelled to a country that used the format that you don't use.

    For example, 06/09/2023 could mean either you're eating something that expires next month, or expired two months ago.

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

    Try to figure out a way to sort it automatically and get back to me on why it's stupid

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Easy. Don't store dates as a text string. That's just bad programming.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    When you say "don't store dates as a string" what you're really saying is "wait for someone else to solve the problem and release a library, then use that library". That seems to be what the majority of the industry does (I'm a Java coder myself and joda is a lifesaver in that regard) but my point is that this problem is hard. Date and time stamps are a subtly difficult part of the average API monkey's daily work.

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