• andrew@lemmy.stuart.funEnglish
        31·
        2 years ago

        Look it’s easy, you just wait until the 13th of the month to figure out which format it is. Is 12 days really so much to ask?

      • Unimeron@feddit.de
        33·
        2 years ago

        Why not do it like the Germans? 08.09.2023
        Different format would avoid confusion about the order.

          • ivanafterall@kbin.social
            43·
            2 years ago

            Also changing it to periods doesn’t avoid confusion about the order. Also pretty sure we fought a whole war over not being like the Germans, so…

            • harl3k1n@feddit.de
              2·
              2 years ago

              It’s quite simple really. The order is “small to big”. You start with the smallest unit, in this case the day. Then follows the next largest unit, the month, and finally the year. Basically the same as in the top picture, but in reverse order.

    • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
      82·
      2 years ago

      The first isn’t ambiguous at all; the second is hella ambiguous.

    • deejay4am@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      No, the second one says “Sept. 8th 2023” and that last panel is obviously British (you can tell by the teeth) /s

      • ShunkW@lemmy.world
        141·
        2 years ago

        We wouldn’t in America in most cases. I’d say it’s August 9th 2023. I honestly feel like this is such a dumb argument to have because it doesn’t matter except for communication with people who use other methods. Now metric vs imperial makes way more sense to me because the metric system is just so much easier for mathematical conversions.

    • Waker@lemmy.ml
      10·
      2 years ago

      My personal preference is DD-MM-AAAA, but as someone that works with lots of data from different formats and timezones… I have to agree with you…

      YYYYMMDD and UTC should be the global default.

    • original_ish_name@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’ve said it once and I will say it again:

      mkdir -p 2023/{January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,Septembet,October,November,December}

      Warning: not POSIX

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 years ago

        Which is why written down or typed without a format prompt I use “12 Aug 2023”

      • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
        31·
        2 years ago

        I use Fahrenheit just because it’s a pain to get everything set to Celsius and other Americans don’t understand it. But I use grams, kilos, millilitres, kilometres, etc. Yes. And if someone asks me to guess the length of an object I will give centimetres, and refuse to translate to inches and their stupid fractions.

        • _wintermute@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          Yes. And if someone asks me to guess the length of an object I will give centimetres, and refuse to translate to inches and their stupid fractions.

          Some proud neckbeard shit right here. “Fuck communicating effectively with people. They don’t even know I only use the metric system!”

          But yeah, got em… I guess.

    • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      USA is the edgy teen after moving out of the parents house (Europe) and finally doing stuff their own way. Not because it is practical, but because they feel rebellious.

    • Uvine_Umarylis@partizle.com
      21·
      2 years ago

      Date Formats:

      Aug 9, 2023

      9 Aug, 2023

      8/9/2023 US

      9/8/2023 GB

      2023/8/9

      Correct Date Formats:

      9 AUG, Juche 112 ✅

    • Zanz@lemmy.mlEnglish
      01·
      2 years ago

      Majority of the world uses YYYY-MM-DD. Day 1st makes no sense. If you need the month or year it should come 1st. You need to zoom into what you need not select from any number of months with the same day. That would be like putting time with seconds 1st.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    The first and the last date format are terrible because you can confuse the day of the month with the number of the month.

    I only like date formats where it’s not possible to confuse any field, like 8 Aug 2023. I minimize ambiguity.

    If the date is in a file name, I make an exception using 2023-08-09 such that a string sort is equal to a date sort.

    • digdug@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      For actually displaying dates to others, I agree that spelling out the month is absolutely preferred. But if space is limited, you’re somewhat required to pick a very shortened format, and the US version is dumb, even if that’s what you should use when displaying in that locale.

      But for working with dates on computers, year-month-day works great, because it’s still human readable, is naturally sortable, and makes it easier for serialization.

      The first one is conventionally never year-day-month, and if anyone ever sent me a date of 2023-17-08, I would respond with, “What the hell?! Are you being evil on purpose?”

  • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
    82·
    2 years ago

    The way I see it, the US just writes it the way it’s spoken. “August 9th, 2023” vs. “the 9th of August, 2023”.

  • NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    72·
    2 years ago

    If it’s a file I want sorted by date the top is good. If I am talking about a date and spelling it out August the 9th of 2023 makes the most sense and seems natural, and if it’s a personal memo or date label on food I just use 08/09 with the zeros so I know it isn’t a fraction unless it’s frozen or shelf stable for long term storage where the year would be useful to know at which point it becomes 8/9/23

    I thought everybody used different date formats based on need.

  • Jyek@sh.itjust.works
    62·
    2 years ago

    Alright, then I guess change the way you read a clock too… My day to day use doesn’t include the year at all. Just mm/dd

    • adriaan@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      2 years ago

      Why change the way you read a clock? year/month/day hour:minute:second

      You would never read a clock as minute:second:hour, which is analagous to how Americans phrase dates.

  • Hyperi0n@lemmy.filmEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    One of my biggest gripes when I worked at Walmart in the claims dept.

    I would always have to double check items because some are sources from the US and use the US date format while the rest is in the normal format.

    BB really needs to have what format was used or labels need to be printed for US sources pantry items.

        • thereisalamp@reddthat.com
          1·
          2 years ago

          That’s what kills me about people who rag on Americans.

          We order our dates the way we say them, and we use a temperature system is a great way to describe feeling heat.

          I’ve got no defense for imperial measurements beyond scooping up a cup of flour is easier than dumping it on a scale.

          But people spend more energy shitting on the cultural norms of Americans than anyone else (especially Europeans) and then spend a lot of time telling us we have no culture.

    • alessandro@lemmy.ca
      01·
      2 years ago

      Generally speaking you’re usually from 0 to 720 hours in a month: how many time in a year you have to remind people what month they are into vs. the single day?

      Guy A: “Hey, what day is it?”

      Guy B: “It’s Sunday, the 13th.”

      Guy A: “Of…?” (gesturing to keep going)

      Guy B: “Ah, right, we’re just 390 hours into August. You may have missed that.”