ISO 8601: a better date format

Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by heipei on Friday February 26, 2021 @02:48PM (#26279039)

I don't know, I'm German and deal with US folks a lot, for me it's like this: Date written with slashes or dashes (3/11/2021 or 3-11-2021) implies US-based month/day/year. Date written with dashes and the year first and zero-padding (2021-03-11) implies year-month-day, aka ISO8601. Date written with dots and without padding (11.3.2021) implies my native format, day.month.year.

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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by Macha on Saturday February 27, 2021 @09:30PM (#26290122)

UK/Ireland are pretty interchangeable about the seperators, but I'd guess D/M/Y has a strong lead over second place d/m/y, while d.m.y is trailing in last.

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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by edoceo on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:18PM (#26279391)

Isn't the point of ISO to eliminate that guess/search process and replace with 100% accuracy on read?

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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by gerikson on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:37PM (#26287504)

Yes, if everyone follows ISO.

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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by account42 on Monday March 01, 2021 @06:51AM (#26301841)

And that starts with you.

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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by gerikson on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @08:55AM (#26328311)

I live in Sweden, so I actually do use ISO...

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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by rodelrod on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:26PM (#26279465)

but then you get an email from an American living in Paris and it's 11/3/2021 with dashes and God knows what he meant.

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