Re:ISO 8601: a better date format
by andy_ppp on Friday February 26, 2021 @05:54AM
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You're making the assumption that users know YYYY-MM-DD is the date format and not YYYY-DD-MM. I bet if you asked non-developers the answers you would get would be pretty random, probably more errors than the locale on their machine.
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the point is, no program writes the date YYYY-DD-MM (or at least, it's very rare).
users who don't know what ISO 8601 is would learn, simply because when that format is used in software, it is consistent!
> YYYY-DD-MM (or at least, it's very rare)
Wikipedia claims [0] that is the date format in Kazakhstan, but only for the Kazakh language, not for Russian. (Maybe there is someone here from Kazakhstan who can confirm if that is true or not.)
A lot of companies don't have any employees in Kazakhstan (which means they can ignore this for internal systems); and many companies wouldn't have any customers there either (which means they can ignore it for external systems as well).