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minus-squaresajuukar@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·4 months ago27 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!
minus-squarethesmokingman@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·4 months ago2013-02-27 is also unambiguous unless you’re aware of a country that uses year day month, is not?
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months ago2013-02-03 though. Someone would fuck it up
minus-squareraspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months ago27 Feb is no more or less ambiguous than 02-27. The problems are when you choose a proper example, like 03/02
minus-squarescratchee@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 months agoWhich 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.
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!
2013-02-27 is also unambiguous unless you’re aware of a country that uses year day month, is not?
2013-02-03 though. Someone would fuck it up
27 Feb is no more or less ambiguous than 02-27. The problems are when you choose a proper example, like 03/02
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.