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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by jiggawatts on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:20PM (#33184415)
The month-day-year format is the standard for 4.23% of the global population, but it's the default in most IT systems, including every globally-deployed cloud system I have ever used.

What's your point?

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by fomine3 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:41PM (#33185768)
You should say thank you for localization system.
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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by jiggawatts on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:09AM (#33189210)
Ah yes, that system where if I see a date like 11/12/22 on the web, then I can safely assume it is one of the following:

    12th of November 2022
    11th of December 2022
    22nd of December 2011
Until I see a "disambiguating" date in the exact same context, I have localization to thank for making it impossible to determine what I'm seeing.

And I mean exact same context, because there are web portal where you will see date formats in multiple formats on the same page!

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