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Canadian man reading date never knows which is day and which is month unless day is above 12 (thebeaverton.com)
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Because he didn't know about ISO8601. The only correct date format, especially in Canada.

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[-] mle86@feddit.org 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

ISO8601 is great and all, but even without a common standard, I feel it should either be largest to smallest unit, or smallest to largest. YMD or DMY. Anything else is just asking for misunderstandings.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

YMD is the way to go, because it auto-sorts on a computer.

Even when you tuck on the time, or would you prefer 59:46:13-14:10:2024 :-) ?

[-] Bertuccio@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I'm not disagreeing in general, but I need to point out that this is like saying you should write Arabic numerals in order of decreasing powers of 10 because it autosorts on a computer.

It's the reverse. Computers automatically sort Arabic numerals and dates written in decreasing powers because those are the correct formats.

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