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Re:1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for ove... by jklinger410 on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @05:24PM (#36701896)
> Mm/DD/yyyy is a crazy format.

Why?

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Re:1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for ove... by shrimp_emoji on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @05:28PM (#36701936)
It's middle endian.

Imagine having middle endian values in a processor. You're reading "1,337" as 3317.

It's nonsensical.

Big-endian yyyy-mm-dd is the most rationally consistent since it's how we write numbers normally. 1,337 is big endian: the 1 is the most significant (biggest) number, etc.

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