pooky55@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 3 months agoWhat is your idea of perfect date?lemm.eeimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up152
arrow-up152imageWhat is your idea of perfect date?lemm.eepooky55@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 3 months agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squaredavel@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·3 months agoISO-8601 / RFC-3339 is clearly superior, but at least DD/MM/YYYY has a rational ordering, unlike MM/DD/YYYY.
minus-squarethejoker954@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoDont know if it’s true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.
minus-squaredavel@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoMy guess is it’s because that’s the order in which we usually say dates in English: September twentieth, twenty-twenty-four.
ISO-8601 / RFC-3339 is clearly superior, but at least DD/MM/YYYY has a rational ordering, unlike MM/DD/YYYY.
Dont know if it’s true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.
My guess is it’s because that’s the order in which we usually say dates in English: September twentieth, twenty-twenty-four.