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[–] sajuukar@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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!

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

2013-02-27 is also unambiguous unless you’re aware of a country that uses year day month, is not?

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

2013-02-03 though. Someone would fuck it up

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

2013-02-27 is also unambiguous.

Hey what's today's date?

It's 2025 -

No like the DAY?

Yeah, it's 2025, 02 -

Not the month, the day - What's today's actual date?

Like I was saying, if you'd let me finish, "2025 - 02 - 27"

I'm mostly joking, but when it comes to info about dates, I think the most evctive format it one that organizes the information within a heirachy that provides follow up answers.

Formatting dates as day / month / year does just that. Provides the day it is, followed by the month and year as that is the order that information is usually needed in.

I find providing the year first (or month) is much more ambiguous as neither are the day the actual date falls on.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We need to get rid of the month/day and just refer to days by number. Today is day 121 in the year 2025, it's super clear.

[–] csh83669@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Why bother with years, it’s day 1,456,7834