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Japan is on its own wavelength. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by spicytuna62@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] Remavas@programming.dev 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Glad I can count my own country, Lithuania, among the enlightened.

EDIT: Source of the picture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Date_format_by_country_NEW.svg

[-] ViscloReader@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Which color is which?

[-] Remavas@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

(This doesn't consider the separator) Cyan - DD/MM/YY Magenta - MM/DD/YY Yellow - YY/MM/DD The other ones are mixes of those two colors, so e.g. the US is MM/DD/YY and YY/MM/DD (apparently).

Also just noticed I didn't attribute this picture, I'll edit my comment.

[-] stealth_cookies@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Canada threw up their hands and said, "Fuck it, I don't care, use whatever date format you like."

[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

We are ridiculously inconsistent in Canada. I've seen all 3 of the most popular formats here (2023-11-22, 11/22/2023, and 22/11/2023) in similarish amounts. Government forms seem to be increasingly using RFC 3339 dates, but even they aren't entirely onboard.

[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

where's that? somewhere in africa?

/s because apparently it's not implied

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Lithuania is one of the Baltic States, conveniently squished between Russia & Belarus to the east and the sea to the west. Across that sea is Sweden. You'll usually see three countries be the parts of this set. Lithuania is the southernmost of these three.