@[email protected] to Lemmy [email protected] • 9 days agoA funny thing about Americans and calendar dateslemmy.worldimagemessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageA funny thing about Americans and calendar dateslemmy.world@[email protected] to Lemmy [email protected] • 9 days agomessage-square70fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•9 days agoBoth are wrong. The correct way to write the date is YYYY-MM-DD. This is the only way to sort dates linearly in a list. ISO 8601.
minus-squaretiredofsametablinkfedilink0•8 days agoAnd, when the context of the year is understood, you can just drop it. At least Japanese does this (and I’m pretty sure Chinese does as well).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•8 days agoYou shouldn’t do that, because if you’re writing it down it means you want to either refer to it later or have someone else refer to it later. The year changes and you’re searching for that receipt or email… why set yourself up for failure?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•9 days agoI can be OK with that But not with having elected the Trump of EU
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•9 days agoBro, trump is learning from Orbán if anything Trump is the US Orbán, fuck both of them too
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•9 days agoIt’s frustrating that people are so bad at dates that ISO8601 lives rent-free in my head because I constantly have to tell people ;)
Both are wrong. The correct way to write the date is YYYY-MM-DD. This is the only way to sort dates linearly in a list. ISO 8601.
And, when the context of the year is understood, you can just drop it. At least Japanese does this (and I’m pretty sure Chinese does as well).
You shouldn’t do that, because if you’re writing it down it means you want to either refer to it later or have someone else refer to it later. The year changes and you’re searching for that receipt or email… why set yourself up for failure?
Hungarian is close enough
YYYY.MM.DD
I can be OK with that
But not with having elected the Trump of EU
Bro, trump is learning from Orbán if anything Trump is the US Orbán, fuck both of them too
It’s frustrating that people are so bad at dates that ISO8601 lives rent-free in my head because I constantly have to tell people ;)