• sajuukar@retrolemmy.com
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    4 months ago

    27 Feb 2013 is unambiguous- regardless of where you’re from or how you write your dates, you can’t confuse 2013 for the month or day, you can’t confuse Feb for a day or week, and if you can’t figure 27 out, then we have bigger problems!

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      4 months ago

      Which I was the justification used when my work decided to use 2025-May-01.

      It’s close enough to the iso date that nobody will be confused but with that 1 extra layer of security blanket to separate months and days.

      Of course, that does ruin sorting, so I think it was a bit silly, nobody has ever used yyyyddmm so it’s all a bit theoretical to me.